Health and wellbeing board members and officers are invited to join a webinar discussion on the Dementia Challenge on Tuesday 18 September from 9-10.30am.
Health and wellbeing boards are now in shadow form and grappling with the realities of operating and discharging their duties.
To support boards to share their thinking and learning, the Health and Wellbeing Board Implementation Team is running a series of webinars aimed at health and wellbeing board members and officers. Webinars (web-based seminars) allow people to meet remotely in a ‘virtual’ conference, using a computer and/or a phone. People can share presentations, discuss important issues, challenge views and share knowledge or ideas without leaving their desk.
The Dementia Challenge – what can health and wellbeing boards do?
This webinar will explore the latest policy development on dementia and examine how health and wellbeing boards can deliver improved dementia services for their local communities. Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, will present on the leading role health and wellbeing boards can play in meeting the Dementia Challenge, and the session will be facilitated by John Wilderspin, National Director for Health and Wellbeing Board Implementation. There will be an opportunity towards the end of the session for questions and discussion.
As health and wellbeing boards develop their commissioning plans, this webinar will provide an opportunity to hear about:
- the latest position on the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia and wider work on the National Dementia Strategy
- why boards are important in delivering improved dementia services and how they can feed into policy development
- case studies where boards are working to improve dementia services at a local level and how they’ve been doing this – what lessons can be learned
- an opportunity to ask questions and share experiences
How to join
Please email healthandwellbeingboards@dh.gsi.gov.uk to register to receive joining instructions.
Also, if you would like to share any good practice in advance, please get in touch at the above email address.
All you will need for the webinar is a computer and a phone. Alternatively, you can join by smart phone.
Background
Earlier this year, the Prime Minister launched his Challenge on Dementia to tackle one of the most important issues we face as our population ages. There are 670,000 people in England living with dementia and one in three people aged over 65 will have dementia by the time they die. As life expectancy increases, more and more people will be affected.
The Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia sets out renewed ambition to go further and faster, building on progress made through the National Dementia Strategy, to secure greater improvements in dementia care and research so that people with dementia, their carers and families get the services and support they need. The aim of this Challenge is to seek improvements in three areas:
- Raising awareness and creating dementia-friendly communities
- Improving health and care
- Better research
Dementia is not just a health and social care issue, it is an issue for all of society.
For more information on the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia, visit http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130123173323/http://storify.com/DHgovuk/prime-minister-s-challenge-on-dementia