The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted significantly on the delivery of NHS services. We have an opportunity to learn from the rapid and necessary service transformation and consider how we recover our services.

Dementia remains a diagnosis with significant impact with a need to balance the timeliness of diagnosis with patient experience and outcomes. Covid may become endemic and our adapted ways of working may become the new normal.

Recent webinars have brought clinicians, service managers and commissioners together to consider factors affecting the dementia pathway in a Covid environment. This document aims to give an overview of factors identified that affect the pathway.

Published: July 2020