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<p>People with dementia receive care and support from many groups of professionals
across the health and social care sector. By October 2013, 108,000 National Health
Service staff had received Tier 1 training on dementia, enabling them to spot the
early symptoms of dementia, know how to interact with people with dementia and ensure
that patients receive the most appropriate care. The Government's refreshed Mandate
to Health Education England, published on 1 May 2014, builds on this by setting an
ambition for a further 250,000 NHS staff to receive Tier 1 training on dementia by
March 2015, with the tools and training opportunities being made available to all
staff by the end of 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The size of the adult social care workforce
is 1.5 million people and research in 2010 indicated that over 40% of this workforce
is involved in supporting people with dementia. Skills for Care estimate that over
the past year over 100,000 social care workers have received some form of dementia
awareness training through workforce development funding from local authorities and
care providers.</p><p> </p>
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