Dementia patients are being catapulted into hospitals because of inadequate community care. That’s the finding of Alzheimer's Society research, which ...
Posts Tagged ‘Dementia’
Dementia patients are being dumped in hospitals due to lack of options
By Mike Broad - January 31st, 2020
Rising admissions to A&E for people with dementia due to ‘threadbare’ social care system
- May 20th, 2018
Tens of thousands of people with dementia each year are being admitted to A&E because inadequate social care is leaving them unprotected from falls and...
Under-funded social care sees 1400 people with dementia stranded in hospital at Xmas
By Mike Broad - December 13th, 2017
A lack of available care homes and home care due to under-funding will see at least 1,400 people with dementia spending Christmas Day in hospital, despite ...
Dementia and stroke research underfunded in UK
By Mike Broad - April 27th, 2015
The amount of government money pumped into dementia and stroke research in the UK has risen significantly in recent years, but it is still way too low when...
55 quid bung for dementia diagnosis is ludicrous
By Bob Bury - November 17th, 2014
Just when you think that nothing that this excuse for a government can do could possibly shock you, along comes the 55 quid bung for diagnosing dementia. T...
Withdraw ‘cash for diagnoses’ dementia scheme
By Mike Broad - November 12th, 2014
Leading doctors and health campaigners are urging the government to withdraw its Dementia Identification Scheme, whereby English GPs are to be paid £55 ...
GPs to be paid £55 for each dementia diagnosis
- October 25th, 2014
Family doctors in England are to be paid £55 for each patient they diagnose with dementia, NHS bosses say. NHS England said the aim of the six-month £...
Elderly medicine: how can people with dementia achieve real choice?
By Mike Broad - October 30th, 2013
Jayne Chidgey-Clark, director of training and development, National Council for Palliative Care speaks at www.healthpluscare.co.uk conference on how people...
Second dementia audit findings: identify delirium
By Professor Emma Reynish, chair of the British Geriatrics Society dementia and similar disorders section - July 23rd, 2013
It is good to see that some progress has been made in improving hospital based dementia care since the last audit. It is vital that all older people admitt...
