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Haringey Admiral Nurse Service celebrates its 10th year

This summer marks ten years of an Admiral Nurse Service in the London Borough of Haringey. A partnership venture between Dementia UK, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust, Haringey Social Services and the Haynes Trust, the Haringey Admiral Nursing Service was launched at Tottenham Hotspur Football Ground in 2000.

During the past ten years the service has grown and developed in both reputation and in the range of interventions it offers.

The anniversary was celebrated at the Admiral Nurse Alzheimer Cafe, Tom's Club. The meeting started with Lucy Whitman and contributors to the book 'Telling Tales about Dementia' telling their own stories and their experiences of their Admiral Nurses. Tom's Club followed its usual format of providing therapeutic interventions for both the person with dementia and their carer's, culminating in a collective musical session and then the ceremonial ‘birthday cake' cutting by Barbara Stephens, Chief Executive of Dementia UK.

To make the occasion even more memorable was the attendance of three of the founder members of the team from back in 2000 - Jules Jones, Barbara Stephens and Julia Botsford. Jules Jones was actually the ‘original' Admiral Nurse!

Pictured is Julia Botsford, Barbara Fitzpatrick, Kaye Efstathiou, and Jules Jones

Supporting People to Live and Die Well:
a framework for social care at the end of life

This document, prepared by the National End of Life Care Programme, working with an Advisory Group of senior professionals and other stakeholders in social care, including representatives from Dementia UK, illustrates social care's vital role in supporting people nearing the end of life. It includes key recommendations and examples of how closer working between social and health care services can improve end of life care whilst using resources efficiently.

Our vision is for every individual and their family to retain their personal dignity, autonomy and choice throughout the care pathway towards the end of their life. To achieve this we need a well-trained and supported workforce, operating in the right kind of commissioning and assessment environment and unconstrained by the traditional boundaries between health and social care.

The Department of Health's End of Life Care Strategy and accompanying implementation programme is intended to change the ‘culture' of dying and the care which individuals and their families receive at the end of life. This framework addresses the social care aspect of those changes. It signals a change in the way the whole social care workforce supports people at the end of life.

Download the Framework here.