The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative body for independent care providers, has endorsed the Alzheimer’s Society’s report Counting the Cost: Caring for people with dementia in hospital wards.

Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says:
“This report gives us a clear road map to improving hospital care for people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.  One of the recommendations that clearly comes out of the report is better integration and communication between bits of the health and social care system”.

Martin Green continues:
“We need to see much more of a team approach to acute admissions, with primary care supporting care providers to minimise admissions, and for interdisciplinary approaches which ensure quality discharge planning.  We will never get this right until we put the patient and their carer at the centre, and respect every professional in both health and social care as an equal partner to delivery”. 

Notes to Editors:

• ECCA works to ensure that care services are commissioned fairly, efficiently and on a properly funded basis, to meet the true costs of providing appropriate care
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