The Fife Dementia Strategy: 2010 – 2020 - The Knowledge Network

involved in providing care for people with dementia. This person will work with
the Health and Social Care Partnership and lead the prioritisation and
implementation of the Strategy.
5.3 Measuring for change.
The development and implementation of a virtual care management system
for dementia (Section 4.1.3) will play an important role in measuring change
and future planning. Key evaluation measures have been identified for many
of the recommendations, linking into current measures used, and in rare
cases requiring the development of new measures. The information collected
can be used to develop a comprehensive picture of changes in dementia care
in Fife as well as to plan future services.
The team responsible for developing the virtual care management system
must work jointly across services and providers and with the Mental Health
Collaborative who all have interests in gathering information on dementia
diagnosis and care in an effort to improve services.
Each recommendation for improvement to dementia services in Fife has been
broken down into a series of action points, each of which must have an
identified measure which will be used to promote understanding of the impact
of each change and monitor progress.
5.4 Annual reporting.
The Fife Mental Health and Older Peoples Strategic Implementation Groups
will monitor the progress of the Strategy and contribute, in partnership with the
Dementia Lead in Fife and the Strategy Steering Group, to an annual report to
the Health and Social Care Partnership using agreed measures.
Respective leads identified and Dementia Lead for Fife.
5.5 Sharing practice to encourage change.
Structured methods for information sharing and knowledge transfer will be set
up to ensure learning and best practice is effectively communicated. A
number of groups and forums identified throughout the Strategy can be
utilised in this manner. As well, new training programmes and tools will be
developed in light of best practice in knowledge transfer and used for both
service providers and uses.
Progress reports on the implementation of the Strategy will be distributed
across Fife through the Steering Groups.
5.6 Implementation Timeline
The timeline presented indicates the completion of major changes to services
in Fife. It is intended as a visual summary as many of the changes highlighted
86