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"One of the GPs led on a project which was aimed to look at improving services for patients with dementia living in care homes to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions."
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"• Patients at risk of dementia were identified and offered an assessment to detect possible signs of dementia."
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"When dementia was suspected there was an appropriate referral for diagnosis."
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"The practice also funded for a health care assistant to complete a diploma in dementia care to enable them to offer memory testing assessment and support."
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"This resulted in increased prevalence of dementia and enabled the practice to offer patients and their carers access to appropriate support and treatment."
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"Good ––– People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia The practice is rated as good for the care of patients experiencing poor mental health including patients living with dementia."
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"The practice also funded for one of the healthcare assistant to complete a diploma in dementia care to enable them to offer memory testing assessment and support."
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"The practice had a dementia lead GP who developed an annual dementia review form in conjunction with secondary care memory leadership team."
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"• The practice had a dementia lead GP who developed an annual dementia review form in conjunction with secondary care memory leadership team."
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"The practice had engaged with another organisation to provide a nurse specialising in respiratory conditions to undertake reviews for patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder COPD until one of their nurses had completed training in this area."
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"For example when a child’s parent reported that the treatment that was prescribed for asthma was not working the practice found that the GP had prescribed a nasal spray instead of an inhaler."
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"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia: • The practice assessed and monitored the physical health of people with mental illness severe mental illness and personality disorder by providing access to health checks interventions for physical activity obesity diabetes heart disease cancer and access to ‘stop smoking’ services."
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"• The practice’s uptake for breast and bowel cancer screening was above the national average."
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"The practice also encouraged its patients to attend national screening programmes for bowel and breast cancer screening."
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"The practice also encouraged eligible female patients to attend for breast cancer screening."
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"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia: • The practice assessed and monitored the physical health of people with mental illness severe mental illness and personality disorder by providing access to health checks interventions for physical activity obesity diabetes heart disease cancer and access to ‘stop smoking’ services."
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"• The practice was able to demonstrate how it identified patients with commonly undiagnosed conditions for example diabetes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD atrial fibrillation and hypertension • The practice’s performance on quality indicators for long term conditions was in line with local and national averages."
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"People with suspected hypertension were offered ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and patients with atrial fibrillation were assessed for stroke risk and treated as appropriate."
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"• The practice was able to demonstrate how it identified patients with commonly undiagnosed conditions for example diabetes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD atrial fibrillation and hypertension • The practice’s performance on quality indicators for long term conditions was in line with local and national averages."
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"People with suspected hypertension were offered ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and patients with atrial fibrillation were assessed for stroke risk and treated as appropriate."
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"The practice had reviewed its antibiotic prescribing and taken action to support good antimicrobial stewardship in line with local and national guidance."
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"People with suspected hypertension were offered ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and patients with atrial fibrillation were assessed for stroke risk and treated as appropriate."
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"People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia: • The practice assessed and monitored the physical health of people with mental illness severe mental illness and personality disorder by providing access to health checks interventions for physical activity obesity diabetes heart disease cancer and access to ‘stop smoking’ services."
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"• Reception staff had access to the duty doctor so they could immediately refer patients presenting with mental health crisis."
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"• The practice had developed a “Mood pack” for patients with mental health problems."
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"The practices performance on quality indicators for mental health was above average compared to local and national averages."
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"• The practice held GP led dedicated annual mental health clinics where patients with significant mental health problems were reviewed."
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"• Staff had a good understanding of how to support patients with mental health needs and dementia."
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"Good ––– People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia The practice is rated as good for the care of patients experiencing poor mental health including patients living with dementia."
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"• The practice regularly worked with multidisciplinary teams in the case management of patients experiencing poor mental health including those with dementia."
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"• People experiencing poor mental health including people with dementia."
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"• The practice had told patients experiencing poor mental health about how to access various support groups and voluntary organisations."
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"• The practice had systems to inform eligible patients to have the meningitis vaccine for example before attending university for the first time."
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"For example recent action taken as a result included the close monitoring of patients taking medicines for gout a type of arthritis and ensuring that those patients had received regular blood tests."
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"COPD is the name for a collection of lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema."