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Healthcare news and resources from the Here team
Community Appointment Days: What makes them tick?
Community Appointment Days (CADs) are a simple idea, built on a bedrock of partnership, personalised care and devolved decision making. With all eyes on the growing NHS waiting lists, anything that serves to get people quickly to the care they need is gathering attention.
The CSP shares experience of Community Appointment Day in HSJ
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has shared their thoughts about the day in a fantastic article for the Health Service Journal – ‘How to radically reduce your MSK waiting list in two days’.
Those who dare: Exceptional care through an ‘everyone’ culture
Earlier this month our Head of People, Una Nicholson spoke as part of the – Those who dare: thinking differently about the health and care workforce conference held by The Kings Fund.
Sharing what works: 4 ingredients of our memory assessment service success
In 2017 with the consent of our commissioners, we redesigned our service around patient voice and needs and anchored ourselves to a new purpose created out of the learning from our patients and their loved ones: To help me and my loved ones to get the care we need to live our lives well.
Beyond diagnosis – World Alzheimer’s Day
Brighton and Hove Memory Assessment Service (MAS) showcased a poignant art installation at the Jubilee Library in Brighton. The display was focussed on challenging peoples perceptions of who dementia affects and encourage people to see beyond the diagnosis.
Community Appointment Days – An idea that rapidly turned into an innovation
Across two days, 550 people from our physiotherapy routine waiting list came and joined us in their local community at our Community Appointment Days.
From Partner in Care to Lead Health Builder
Sussex Musculoskeletal Partnership Central’s (SMSKPC) ethos of delivering innovative care is what initially attracted me to volunteering as a Patient Partner in the MSK service in 2015. I wanted others to experience that same life changing personalised care in their own lives.
Memory Assessment Service & LGBT Switchboard collaboration
We want to understand more. Our collaboration with the Switchboard is allowing us to listen to LGBTQ+ patient voices and explore the firsthand experiences of people with dementia and their loved ones.
World Alzheimer’s month
Brighton and Hove Memory Assessment Service (MAS) is more than an assessment service. We offer both clinical care and social support to those people who are diagnosed with dementia.