November 2017
Due to the delay in publication of the new NICE guidance on dementia, WS6 work has been paused. Following discussions with the External Steering Committee, we have used this time to conduct additional interviews with commissioners and vanguard sites.
April 2017
Workstream 6.1 (commissioning: current arrangements) and Workstream 6.2 (develop ‘best practice’ guidance):
Following advice from the External Steering Group and NIHR, the SEED team decided to continue with workstream 6.1 data collection due to the area of clinical commissioning rapidly changing and the current NICE 2006 dementia care guidelines currently being revised and brought up to date in terms of evidence. Telephone and face-to-face follow-up interviews with commissioners who were previously been interviewed for workstream 6.1, are currently being organised, to obtain more up to date data, exploring what tools or information/resources are needed to help them in their role and whether they would use NICE guidelines.