Developing interactional strategies for delivering integrated personalised dementia care planning

Introduction

NHS England’s mission is for every person living with dementia to have a personalised support plan, integrating priorities for action across primary, social, and secondary health care, achieved through ‘proactive personalised conversations’ focusing on ‘what matters to them, paying attention to their needs and wider well-being.’ Annual dementia QoF reviews, the primary care mechanism through which care planning is summarised into personalised care plans, are inconsistent, often lack quality, and based on standardised ‘long term conditions’ formats, not allowing for the nuanced conversations needed to reflect dementia care complexities. How these concerns should interact in practice with social care concepts of personalised and strengths-based support are unclear.

Objectives

This award aims to support Sarah to develop interactional strategies for delivering integrated personalised dementia care planning.

It will consolidate Sarah’s role as mixed methods dementia researcher by providing focussed training alongside opportunities to build her network across primary care and social care.