News - Debates

Jeremy Hughes, chief executive, Alzheimer's Society
YES NHS England has launched a new initiative where it will pay GPs £55 for each time they diagnose a person with dementia. The scheme has attracted both criticism and support. Jeremy Hughes, chief executive at Alzheimer’s Society, believes the end justifies the means and if...

Katherine Murphy, chief executive, Patients Association
NO Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, is dead against the scheme calling it “a step too far” that could lead to a “bounty on the head” of certain patients. She said that good GPs are diagnosing their dementia patients already and that the new scheme...