Turning learning into action
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Turning learning into action

Jon White Lead nurse, Practice development at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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A project in Milton Keynes is seeking to improve dementia care by enrolling HCAs on a specialist course, says Jon White

Dementia affects approximately 800,000 people in the UK, and around one in four hospital patients has the condition. Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has designed an initiative to increase the knowledge and skills of healthcare assistants (HCAs) to improve the care of these patients.

Nursing Standard. 27, 51, 69-69. doi: 10.7748/ns2013.08.27.51.69.s58

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21 August 2013 / Vol 27 issue 51

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