NICE quality standard - dementia
SCIE has worked in collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on quality standard on dementia. These dementia standards are based on the joint NICE/SCIE clinical guidelines.
NICE quality standards are a set of specific, concise statements that act as markers of high-quality, cost-effective patient care, covering the treatment and prevention of different diseases and conditions.
Quality standards enable:
- Health and social care professionals to make decisions about care based on the latest evidence and best practice
- Patients to understand what service they can expect from their health and social care providers
- NHS Trusts to quickly and easily examine the clinical performance of their organisation and assess the standards of care they provide
- Commissioners to be confident that the services they are providing are high quality and cost effective
NICE-SCIE Guideline
Quality standards
The dementia quality standard can be accessed on the NICE website.
Further quality standards are in development and will be published during 2010/11. See the Quality standards in development section for more details.
