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Should GP’s be incentivised to diagnose Dementia?

Family doctors in England are to be paid £55 every time they diagnose a case of dementia, NHS England has said.

NHS chiefs said the aim was to increase the number of sufferers who receive treatment for the condition. But the Patients Association called it “a step too far” that would mean a “bounty on the head” of some patients.

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