The Operating Theatre Journal

Thursday, 16 December 2010

Dementia care in hospitals: staff training not mandatory, basic assessments overlooked and delays in referrals, National Clinical Audit Report finds

A report into the care received by nearly 8,000 patients with dementia in 206 hospitals in England and Wales has revealed that few hospitals provide mandatory training for their staff in awareness of dementia, that many patients with dementia are not having assessments of their mental health or state of nutrition and that there are serious delays for patients referred to in-hospital psychiatry liaison services.

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