722 Prince of Wales Road
Darnall
Sheffield
S9 4EU
FOI Contact: Freedom of Information Lead
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: xxxxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx
Contact Telephone: (0114) 3051000
FOI Ref: 0211FOI1920
19th February 2020
Simon Jenkins
Email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Mr Jenkins
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information
We are pleased to respond to your request for information and our response is set out
below:
Request/
Response
1. What services do you provide to care for the increasing number of patients suffering
with dementia?
NHS Sheffield CCG do not provide direct services to people with dementia, as we
are a commissioning organisation.
However, the CCG and Sheffield City Council have a joint commissioning plan for
dementia which includes, for example, a specialist dementia advice service for
professionals to ensure care is co-ordinated and people can live well at home;
day support for younger and older adults; as well as CCG specifically
commissioned services within Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation
Trust, (SHSC) such as the Sheffield Memory Service and the Oder Adults Mental
Health Teams (the latter provides support on a wider range of mental issues than
dementia, but dementia support is a key element of the service.) We also
commission residential dementia nursing home provision, and packages of care
for individuals through our Continuing Health Care function.
Chair:
Dr Terry Hudsen Accountable Officer:
Lesley Smith
2. What support do you provide for the family members who act as carers for their
relatives with dementia?
There is support to family carers available through the services that we
commission as described above. However, as a CCG, we are also active
promoters of Sheffield as a Dementia Friendly City and promote national
information for carers, through the CCG webpages.
https://www.sheffieldccg.nhs.uk/our-projects/dementia-friendly-community.htm
and https://www.dementiacarer.net/
In addition we are developing our Dementia Strategy for the city, with partners
which has a specific commitment to developing our multi-agency approaches for
carers. This will be published later this month on Sheffield CCG’s website. See
https://www.sheffieldccg.nhs.uk/
As part of Sheffield CCG’s collaborative working in the 'People Keeping Well'
partnership with Sheffield City Council, there are now more dementia-specific
and dementia-friendly groups in local areas and across the city including:
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Dementia and Memory Cafés, social dining groups and coffee mornings
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Walking groups, exercise and “chairobics” classes
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Music and singing sessions
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Carer support groups and pampering sessions
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Groups for men and groups for women
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Gardening, allotment and farming projects and much more
3. What courses or training do you require your doctors and nurses to attend as part of
their training in dementia management?
As previously stated we are not direct providers of dementia services, and
therefore do not stipulate training requirements, although do encourage local
providers to sign up to the Dementia Friendly City commitments, and have
identified training and awareness raising as one of the underpinning components
of our Dementia Strategy commitments.
4. Are you involved in providing any new services for dementia patients?
As stated, we are not direct providers of dementia care. However, as part of our
joint commissioning plans, Sheffield CCG and Sheffield City Council will be
designing and redesigning services in the future to provide high quality,
personalised services in Sheffield. This aims to support adults of all ages with
dementia to continue to remain independent within their community, and to
support their family carers in their caring roles.
5. Have you liaised with other CCGs in England to establish whether they have
performed or evaluated any new services for dementia patients?
We use national evidence based practice to develop our local strategies and
implementation plans.
We have not specifically looked at performance of services that other CCG’s
commission, but we do work within an Integrated Care System, across South
Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, which gives us the opportunity to work with other
CCGs on designing and delivering services, and we will seek to utilise these
networks at appropriate points in enacting our commissioning plans.
6. Do you have a lead clinician responsible for improving dementia care? What are
their qualifications and experience?
As a Clinical Commissioning Organisation, we employ Clinical Directors to lead
on the commissioning of all areas of health care, including dementia. These are
qualified General Practitioners (GPs) who have many years of experience of
working in primary care, and experience of the identification, treatment and
support to people with dementia and their families. There is a specific designated
Clinical Director who is responsible for leading on dementia as part of the above
structure of the CCG, and in addition, we also employ additional sessions from a
GP with a special interest in dementia to assist in the development of the
Dementia Strategy. This person has been a lead GP for the Elderly Mental Illness
Care Homes within their practice area, over many years and has completed a
Post Graduate Certificate in Dementia Care for professionals with a special
interest in dementia.
7. Are you involved in developing or piloting any new services for dementia care?
We are recommissioning our joint approach to day care services, led by the Local
Authority, but as part of the Dementia Strategy implementation and action plan,
our plans to commission or pilot new services will evolve in the future in
partnership with providers of dementia care and support, and other stakeholders.
8. How much funding have you allocated or received for any new service or service
pilot?
Not applicable
9. If you have a new dementia service, has it been evaluated for clinical efficacy and
value for money?
Any new services that are commissioned go through a standard NHS
procurement procedure and as such have an automatic evaluation process built
in for the provider to demonstrate efficacy and value for money.
10. If so, what was the evaluation criteria and who performed the evaluation?
The criteria and evaluation process is specific to each service that is
commissioned through a procurement process.
11. What are the clinical qualifications of the evaluation officer/team?
The evaluation panel for any procurement process is drawn up from appropriate
commissioning and procurement officers, and may or may not include clinical
staff and experts by experience, depending on what knowledge and skills we
require on the panel, for the service that is being procured.
12. Has there been any separate funding or cost for the evaluation process?
Not applicable
13. Can you share the detailed evaluation data and outcomes?
Not applicable
We trust this provides you with the information you require.
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Yours sincerely
Chevaughn Woodhouse
Freedom of Information (FOI) Lead
NHS Sheffield CCG