Overview
This quality standard covers preventing dementia, and assessment, management and health and social care support for people with dementia. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
How to use NICE quality standards and how we develop them
Quality standards help you improve the quality of care you provide or commission. They apply in England and Wales (see the UK government website and Welsh government website). Decisions on how they apply in Scotland and Northern Ireland are made by ministers in the Scottish government and Northern Ireland Executive.
Find out how to use quality standards and how we develop them.
This quality standard updates and replaces the NICE quality standards on dementia: support in health and social care (QS1) and dementia: independence and wellbeing (QS30).
Endorsing bodies
This quality standard is endorsed by Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England as required by the Health and Social Care Act (2012).
Supporting organisations
A number of organisations recognise the benefit of this quality standard in improving care. They work with us to promote it to commissioners and service providers:
- Alzheimer's Society
- Association of British Neurologists (ABN)
- British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Public Health England
- Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)
- Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT)
- Royal College of Physicians (RCP)
- Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych)
- Society and College of Radiographers (SOR)