Erskine Dementia Strategy 2018 – 2020
- Written by: Derek T Barron — Erskine — Acting Chief Executive, Director of Care Erskine Bishopton
- Published: 15th June 2018
Our great friend Derek T Barron, who we have been honoured to work with over the last four years, shares the new Erskine Dementia Strategy
Strategies come and strategies go, I’ve been involved in a fair few over the years in my time as an NHS Scotland nurse leader. Some have achieved what they set out to do, others, while ambitious have not achieved their desired outcomes. However without a vision of what you want to achieve or what you want to happen it is difficult, as an organisation, to ensure we are all heading in the same direction, it is also difficult to know if you’ve improved/developed your services.
That vision is the basis of Erskine’s Dementia Strategy (this link will take you away from our website).
Erskine, as an organisation, want to ensure our staff know what we want to achieve, what are the things that are important to us – the document calls them ‘assurances’. The assurance are a reflection of what are important to our residents, to our relatives, to our staff and to our regulator.
Involvement
Staff have been involved in developing the strategy, our residents and relatives haven’t been directly involved in the writing of the document, it does however reflect their feedback and comments through our regular residents/relatives survey.
Implementation
Implementation of the strategy will be lead by our Dementia Nurse Consultant Janice McAlister, however leadership throughout the organisation will be essential in us effectively delivering our ‘assurances.’
Having worked with Tommy for a number of years I was delighted when he said he’d share our strategy on this blog page – Tommy has been part of our foundation in developing the strategy having delivered a number of sessions, across our Homes. Education is a cornerstone of what we want to achieve, for our staff to share and learn from Tommy’s experience has touched the hearts of those who’ve heard him. These sessions were clear demonstrations of the need to pursue our #makeadifference goals with passion and enthusiasm.
This strategy evidences our #makeadifference ambitions over the next three years.
About Erskine
Erskine (this link will take you away from our website) is Scotland’s pre-eminent provider of care for veterans and their spouses in four purpose-built care homes. We have been providing care for over 100 years.
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