West Midlands
Dementia UK West Midlands
Dementia UK is working in the West Midlands, supporting existing Admiral Nursing services and negotiating with health and social care commissioners and providers with the aim of expanding provision across the region.
About Us
Dementia UK West Midlands was created in April 2006 through the formalizing of a partnership between Dementia Plus (the Dementia Service Development Centre for the West Midlands) and Dementia UK.
Dementia UK West Midlands is a member of the Dementia UK family, sited in Wolverhampton and with a West Midlands wide brief to reach out to professionals, people with dementia, family carers and others who are involved with or affected by dementia and other mental health conditions of later life. It seeks to work with guidance and involvement from Uniting Carers.
Dementia UK West Midlands continues to carry on its Dementia Services Development Centre traditions and contributes to the work of the DSDC network.
Dementia UK West Midlands facilitates networks for professionals working in dementia care and related services within the West Midlands and, as part of the charity's training arm, Dementia UK Training, delivers in-house training programmes across the Region.
People
Professor David Jolley, formerly Director of Dementia UK West Midlands, is chair of the Steering Committee, which has met quarterly since Spring 2006.
The other committee members are:
Barbara Stephens (Dementia UK), Kate Read (Worcestershire University), Rosemary Clarke (Uniting Carers), Dr Neil Moreland (Research), Denise Westwood (Trainer), Elaine Ivis (Alzheimer's Society), a representative from Wolverhampton City PCT and a representative from Wolverhampton Social Services.
Staff based at Dementia UK West Midlands:
Kate Read, Development Director
Sandra Graham, Administrator
Bob Graham, Practice Development Admiral Nurse
Trainers: Denise Westwood
Admiral Nurses
There are Admiral Nurses working in the following parts of the West Midlands:
This service is provided in partnership with Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust
South Birmingham and Solihull
This service is provided in partnership with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Telford and Wrekin
This service is provided in partnership with NHS Telford and Wrekin
This service is provided in partnership with Worcestershire Mental Health NHS Partnership Trust
A new Admiral Nursing service is being formed in Telford in partnership with NHS Telford and Wrekin.
For more information on Admiral Nursing in the West Midlands, please contact the Dementia UK office on 020 7874 7210 or Dementia UK West Midlands on 01902 575 064 or email info@dementiauk.org
If there is no Admiral Nursing service in your area, please call Admiral Nursing DIRECT on 0845 257 9406 or email direct@dementiauk.org
Training and Learning Partnerships
Dementia UK offers the full portfolio of commissioned courses across the North West. The charity if also developing new learning partnerships with organisations working in the field of older people's care and dementia.
For more information on Training and Learning Partnerships contact the Dementia UK office 020 7874 7210 or Dementia UK West Midlands on 01902 575064 or email training@dementiauk.org
Uniting Carers
If you live in the West Midlands and would like to join Uniting Carers please click here.
For more information, please contact Joy Watkins, Resource Co-ordinator on 020 7874 7209 or email carers@dementiauk.org
Networks