Dementia United’s delirium webinars and in-person events

We’ve hosted annual webinars and in-person events for World Delirium Awareness Days, as well as at other times of the year, since 2018. We’ve provided links below to the webinars and events, including any slides and resources that were shared at the events.

World delirium awareness day is an annual event held in March to raise awareness about delirium and its impact on patients, families and health care staff and systems www.deliriumday.com/

In-person event: March 12th 2025 covering the following topics:

  • What delirium is and how to manage it
  • Stories from people with lived experience
  • NHS Greater Manchester’s system taking delirium forward as a priority area
  • Good practice examples from Greater Manchester localities with Stockport showcasing their successful community pathway and toolkit implementation
  • Unique opportunity to hear from international colleagues from Singapore
  • Workshops exploring how we improve delirium assessment and management in the hospital and community

This link Dementia United’s World Delirium Awareness Day 2025 in-person health and care staff event was a huge success. – Dementia United includes the event slides and feedback from the workshop.

Webinar: March 13th 2024 covering the following topics;

  • What is delirium: a primary care perspective (Dr Rebecca Marchmont, General Practitioner, Dementia United Clinical Lead)
  • Humanising delirium care: carers experiences and Greater Manchester carers top tips resources (Liz Brookes and Marion Coleman (lived experience advisors, Dementia United’s Dementia Carers Expert Reference Group)
  • Greater Manchester’s updated delirium toolkits and implementation (Helen Pratt, Senior Project Manager, Dementia United)
  • Community delirium toolkit in care homes. A pilot in Trafford locality (Caroline Harvey, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Trafford Local Care Organisation, Rebecca Poole, Specialist Commissioner- Older People’s Services, Trafford Council and Godfrey Taderera, Manager, Lady of the Vale Care Home)

This link takes you to page with more information but the webinar GREATER MANCHESTER’S BEST PRACTICE DELIRIUM WEBINAR 13th March 2024 – Dementia United You can downlaod the slides here GM Best Practice Delirium Webinar 2024 final

Webinar: April 26th 2023 covering the following topics;

  • A powerful personal account from John who lives with dementia and has experienced delirium, and a discussion of the value of lived experience of delirium in raising awareness (John O’Doherty, lived experience advisor)
  • Presentation on what delirium is, and why it is so important to detect it from an acute hospital perspective (Scott Mather, Consultant Physician and Geriatrician, clinical lead for Delirium and Dementia, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust)
  • An introduction to Greater Manchester’s delirium standards and resources for clinicians to be using (Senior Project Manager, Dementia United)
  • Bolton Hospital’s delirium and dementia simulation training; Enhanced Care and Support Team offer for people with delirium (David Nielson, Lead Admiral Nurse, and Ella Balmer, Specialist Nurse Coordinator at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust)
  • Lessons learned in co-producing translated delirium resources (Mel Safari, Professional local Translation & Interpreting)
  • Challenges and solutions when rolling out the community delirium toolkit in Trafford (Caroline Harvey and Francine Whittaker, Trafford Local Care Organisation)
  • Chaired by Emma Vardy, Consultant Geriatrician, Clinical Lead for the delirium programme, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

View the webinar on YouTube 

Webinar: October 14th 2022 covering the following topics;

  • What is delirium (Emma Vardy, Consultant Geriatrician, Clinical Lead for the Delirium programme, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust)
  • An introduction to Dementia United’s delirium programme (Helen Pratt, Senior Project Manager, Dementia United)
  • Stockport’s Implementation of the Community pathway and delirium toolkit (Jayne Etches, Crisis Response Team, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust)
  • Accuracy of the 4AT in non-English speaking patients (Anham Ahmad, Junior Doctor, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust)
  • Harnessing lived experience, lessons learned from the co-production of a delirium zine (Jacquie Widdowson, Business Development Manager, Reform and Public Health Directorate, Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre and Helen Pratt, Dementia United)
  • 7 minute education sessions in the hospital – an example from Trafford (Sam Turner, Dementia Specialist Nurse , Wythenshawe Trafford Withington and Altrincham Hospitals, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust)
  • Peri-operative planning for the risk of delirium – an example from Tameside Hospital (Kellie Smart, Admiral Lead Nurse, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Foundation Trust)

The webinar slides can be accessed via this link GM Delirium webinar 14th Oct 2022

For World Delirium Awareness Day in March 2022 this link will take you to the collated training resources  World Delirium Awareness Day 2022 – Dementia United