NHS to discontinue dementia diagnosis payments to GP practices

Scheme to improve diagnosis rates that has been fiercely criticised by GPs and patient groups will not be renewed in March.



A controversial scheme to pay GPs’ practices £55 each time they diagnose a patient with dementia is to be discontinued, the head of the NHS in England has announced.

GPs’ representatives and patient groups fiercely condemned the payments, which are part of a drive to increase diagnoses of the condition, as ethically questionable and damaging to the relationship between doctor and patient.

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