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What a surprise! Scheme to pay family doctors £55 for every dementia patient on their books sees diagnoses rise by a quarter
- The rise means the Prime Minister has almost achieved his target to radically increase the number of people diagnosed with the condition
- Controversial scheme has now been dropped, as was ‘temporary measure’
- But there are fears some patients were wrongly diagnosed with dementia
By Jenny Hope Medical Correspondent For The Daily Mail
A controversial scheme to pay GPs £55 for every new case of dementia on their books has boosted diagnoses by almost a quarter, according to new figures.
The rise means the Prime Minister has almost achieved his target to radically increase the number of people diagnosed with dementia.
But there are fears that the incentive scheme has led to more patients being misdiagnosed with the condition.
Dementia diagnoses have risen by a quarter since a controversial scheme was introduced to pay family doctors £55 for every patient they care for with the condition
The figures, from the Health and Social Care Information Centre, show the number of patients with a record of dementia went up to 415,964 at the end of March this year.
The figures show a leap of 24 per cent – from 336,445 – since the end of September when the scheme came in.
The controversial incentive scheme has now been dropped, with NHS England insisting that it was only designed as a temporary measure.
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