News NHS England, the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services are inviting applications from health and social care leaders to help develop a new approach to commissioning services for people with complex needs. The Integrated Personal Commissioning programme will bring health and social care funding together and enable individual patients to direct how it is used. The closing date is November 7. Go to www.england. nhs.uk/ourwork/commissioning/ipc A documentary on dementia care at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has been chosen to feature in a Japanese film festival. Filmmaker Yuka Sekiguchi visited Norwich last year to interview experts from the trust and the University of East Anglia for Everyday Is Alzheimer’s 2, the follow up to a work about her mother’s life with the disease. It will feature in the Aichi International Women’s Film Festival. Nurses at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London are running free pressure ulcer prevention workshops in October and November which are aimed at carers, relatives and healthcare professionals. Contact [email protected] June Andrews, director of the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling, has been made a fellow of the RCN. A fellowship is the college’s highest honour and is awarded to members who have made an exceptional contribution to nursing and health care. Professor Andrews is pictured right with fellow director Shirley Law. 6

October 2014 | Volume 26 | Number 8

Houses should be made easier to adapt as home owners grow older THOUSANDS OF older people face unnecessary delays in being discharged from hospital because they are waiting for home adaptations, according to a charity. Patients who need grab rails or ramps are having to wait in hospital for an extra 27 days while the adaptations are made, Age UK said. It equates to 40,000 ‘needless days’ at a cost of £11.2 million a year. The charity is calling on the government to ensure all new homes are built to a ‘lifetime homes standard’, which means they can be easily adapted as people age. Charity director at Age UK Caroline Abrahams said: ‘Ensuring all new housing can be adapted would save the

Fellowship set up to produce nurse leaders who will drive change A SPECIALIST education programme to develop older people’s nurse leaders is being launched. Health Education England (HEE) is sponsoring the Older Person’s Nurse Fellowship programme to create a ‘cadre of nurse leaders who are recognised experts in the care of older people’. The fellowship is targeted at nurses with experience of working with older people in the community, acute care or mental health at a senior level, such as clinical nurse specialists, nurse consultants or community matrons. The one-year, part-time programme will consist of distance and online learning, in addition to study days, trips and residential events at King’s College London. There will be two cohorts of 12 students. One will commence studying in November 2014 and finish in October 2015, and the second will begin in March 2015 and finish in February 2016. The 24 students who make up the first two cohorts will have their programme fees funded by HEE and up to 15 days’ salary backfill paid to their employers. HEE director of nursing Lisa Bayliss-Pratt said the training and education body

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Delays in fitting ramps and rails to patients’ homes are costing the health service £11.2 million a year

country millions and help end the nonsense of older people lingering for long periods in hospital, simply because of delays in fitting adaptations like grab rails and ramps. ‘It is worrying that so many older people are living in homes that are hard to adapt and in a poor state of repair.’

recognised the ‘importance of developing and training nurses caring for older people with complex needs’. She added that the programme aimed to develop nurse leaders ‘who have national influence and are able to drive change so that the care of older people is compassionate and of the highest possible quality’. See Art & science, page 26 Find out more www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/study/Older-PersonsNurse-Fellowship-Programme.aspx

Person-focused approach used in dementia qualification THE ALZHEIMER’S Society and Royal Society for Public Health have joined forces to create a new qualification to help people understand more about dementia. The Level 2 award in Understanding Dementia is designed to raise standards in care through a person-focused approach. The qualification is open to anyone who has an interest in broadening their knowledge about dementia. Find out more Contact [email protected] NURSING OLDER PEOPLE

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