The Primary and Community Care Response to Dementia- Leading for Improvement

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South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

PROGRAMME FOCUS

• The Programme proposes an approach to developing

the dispersed and diverse leadership capacity to

deliver improved services for people with dementia

with particular focus on supporting the role of GPs as

clinical leaders, emerging commissioners and

practitioners

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

PROGRAMME AIMS

• Enhance and develop the leadership capacity within local

service systems to develop, and deliver local action plans to

support the implementation of the National Dementia Strategy.

• Develop capacity for continuous and sustainable improvements

in quality

– early diagnosis and intervention,

– achieving results that matter to patients and their carers, and

– the key objectives of “Living Well with Dementia”

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

PROGRAMME AIMS

• Develop the leadership capacity GPs as commissioners and

local clinical leaders

• Develop leadership capacity of other key partners

– E.g. other practitioners, managers, patients and their families, acute

medical care, the voluntary and community sector, and social care.

• Build capacity for sustainable improvement over the long term

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

PROGRAMME AIMS

• Develop relationships, methods and process

to support continued sharing of intelligence

(e.g. on results and their measurement) and

the ongoing development of leadership for

improvement capacity

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

PROPOSED PARTICIPANTS

• Regional GP Dementia Leads

• PCT GP Dementia Leads

• Service Commissioners

• Local Councillors

• Health & Wellbeing Partnership Boards

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

PROPOSED PARTICIPANTS

• GPs with special interest

• Other professionals with a special interest e.g.

Community Matrons, social care managers

• Social Care Leads

• People with lived experience of dementia and their

carers

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

PROGRAMME FEATURES

• Ongoing evaluation of priority issues for participants as their

roles unfold

• Space within events to address these issues there-and-then

• Exposure to top quality content on key issues concerning

leadership for improvement within local systems of care

• Varied learning formats with a focus on interaction

• Working from strengths and building relationship

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

PROGRAMME FEATURES

• Opportunities for bespoke development support from

skilled coaches as sought by participants

• Access and support in contributing to web resources

for collaboration and social networking

• Participation in Solution Focused Action and

Reflection (SoFAR) Groups

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

SoFAR GROUPS• SoFAR groups extend the usual practice of action learning sets

and have the following features:

• Using the group itself as a space to practice leadership skills in

a safe and supportive environment

• Application of new ideas to real-life real-time issues of concern

to participants

• Commitment to action, with supportive feedback on the results

to capture learning and improved practice

• Use of solution focused, and other coaching techniques to

support reflection, learning and action

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

PROGRAMME DELIVERY

• This scoping event followed by four further, one-day events over

a year

• Bespoke support in the intervening periods

• Facilitated by Steve and Jo and other SWDC colleagues to

ensure continuity and continued refinement of content and

delivery in light of feedback.

• Additional facilitation support for the SoFAR groups will be

provided by appropriate qualified and supported practitioners

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

NOTIONAL CONTENT

• Highlighting what works

• Bespoke expert input on key topics

• Making sense of the leadership needed here and now

• Personal development concerning how to achieve influence and

effective negotiation

• Principles and practice of service redesign to maximise value for

patients and their support and reduce waste

• Service improvement through building on strengths and developing

relationship

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

NOTIONAL CONTENT

• The QIPP agenda and its implementation

• Bringing together the new underpinning change principles for

healthcare

• Working with local services as “living systems”, including team and

inter-team development, and “whole systems thinking”

• Thinking differently- fostering creativity and innovation

• Making the most of the leadership expertise of patients and their

supports and exploring models for local governance and accountability

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

NOTIONAL CONTENT

• Engaging well with the equalities agenda

• Approaches for particular client groups, (e.g.

early onset dementia and people with learning

disability)

• Focusing on outcomes and measuring what

counts

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

EVALUATION

• The programme will adopt a formative evaluation approach that

agrees, measurement of the outcomes sought from the outset

and processes for collecting information

• Additionally a global solution focused evaluation of the whole

programme will be undertaken using an innovative group

method that captures the specifics of what was achieved and

any unfulfilled potential

South West Dementia Partnership

Living well with dementia across the South West

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