RCHT Dementia Care Policy - the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust ...

ecorded. Materials to support carers are available and consideration of their
entitlement to an independent carers assessment must always be made.
6.2.4. To improve coding of patient who have a dementia diagnosis the Trust
promotes the notification of this through the use of the ‘Code:Dementia’ sticker
(CHA 2836). The eldercare team along with the Complex Care and Dementia
Psychiatric Liaison Service are primarily directed to leading sticker utilisation.
6.3. The Trust undertakes an annual self assessment against these standards and
develops an improvement / action plan that combines with its annual National Audit
performance results and its annual dementia patient and their carer survey results
into a comprehensive programme of work that the RCHT Dementia Care Action
Group has delegated responsibility to deliver.
6.4. The Trust has a number of work streams in place to deliver the ambitions of its
strategy, this policy and the standards set out within it. Underpinning these work
streams is clinical and practice guidance - essential to demonstrate and deliver
excellent care to this patient group, their carers and families.
6.5. Organisationally this is visually and practically presented in a ‘Map’, this
‘organisational map’ should guide staff to the appropriate information and guidance to
support care at key points on the patient journey through the acute care system and
when they interface with community services providers and partners.
6.6. The Organisational Dementia Care Map
Mental Capacity Act / Policy
Delirium
Pathway
Pre- /
Admission
Phase
Assessment
Phase
Acute Care
and
Management
Phase
Discharge
Planning
Phase
Dementia
Pathway
6.7. Pre-admission phase – This phase remains developmental and dependent of
intelligence sharing to support people admitted to hospital. For our elective pathway
patients, better information and communications can be prompted and started prior to
admission so care on admission can be tailored to meet their needs (e.g. making
available This is ME). Unscheduled or emergency admission pathway patients
require co-operation and often preparatory intervention from partners (e.g. care
homes) to prepare of such an admission. Currently the AMP (Assess Monitor and
Prevent) Document is being promoted in the community to enable early sharing of
information when people are admitted as an emergency to tour hospitals. Growing
use of shared technologies could aid better response to individual assessment of
needs in these unscheduled admissions.
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