{"id":120804,"date":"2025-05-21T21:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120804\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:21:14","slug":"dementia-screening-for-all-patients-over-75-admitted-to-shropshires-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120804\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia screening for ALL patients over 75 admitted to Shropshire&#8217;s hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new screening process has been launched at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sath.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust\u00a0<\/a>(SaTH), which it says will enable local patients to move through the delirium and dementia pathway.<\/p>\n<p>It said the initial assessment can lead to an early diagnosis of dementia, which then helps to support patients and families with future care plans and improving their quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Support from the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust (MPFT) has seen the Dementia Team at SaTH working closely with their medical colleagues to introduce the new screening and referral process.<\/p>\n<p>The trust said it has resulted in quicker referrals for patients, quicker diagnoses and support, as well as improved partnership working.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Breese, Dementia Nurse Specialist, said: \u201cIt\u2019s great to work with our partners across healthcare to ensure people get assessed and diagnosed earlier to get the right support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are really pleased with the improvements we\u2019ve seen and look forward to building on this success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The screening will be offered to patients, where appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the trust celebrates its annual Research, Education and Improvement Week, which shines a spotlight on its innovative research trials and recognises how research, innovation and improvement play such a crucial role in healthcare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dementia Action Week also runs from May 19 to 25.<\/p>\n<p>The vital annual campaign encourages individuals, communities, and organisations across the UK to take action in support of people affected by dementia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about research at SaTH, click visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sath.nhs.uk\/about-us\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sath.nhs.uk\/about-us\/research\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new screening process has been launched at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust\u00a0(SaTH), which it says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[27607,105,4348,379,12630,12,29793,29794,380,8972,18713,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-120804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-bridgnorth","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-local-hubs","12":"tag-mid-wales","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-north-shropshire","15":"tag-oswestry","16":"tag-shrewsbury","17":"tag-south-shropshire","18":"tag-telford","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114547922385565423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}