QI activities

Goal

 Arrange a Home Medicines Review for patients with dementia and taking 5+ regular medications by a target date.

Measures

Use Pen CAT4 to identify the proportion of patients with dementia who are taking 5+ regular medications and who had a medication review in the previous 12 months. Then see by how much this number has increased by the target date.

Improvement ideas

• Invite clinical staff to complete online training on managing dementia in the general practice setting (resources included in the QI activity).
• Create a register of patients with known dementia and those newly diagnosed and use the register to review management.
• Use Pen CAT4 to identify patients with dementia and cognitive impairment.
• Use Pen CAT4 to identify patients with dementia who are eligible for an annual 75+ health assessment

Download the QI template below for more improvement ideas.