Patients must be told if they have dementia: They have a human right to know about illness, says new NHS chief Patients have a ‘human right’ to be told if they have dementia, the new head of the NHS has declared. GPs should always seek to diagnose the illness and not make the assumption that sufferers would rather stay in the dark, said Simon Stevens. He warned that there was an ‘attitude of fatalism’ about dementia in the NHS – and society – with both patients and doctors thinking ‘nothing could be done’. Mr Stevens is now issuing new guidelines for family doctors which set out the importance of diagnosing dementia, which is characterised by failing brain functions such as memory loss. Figures suggest that 850,000 Britons have the syndrome but half have never been formally diagnosed. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2751408/Patients-told-dementia-They-human-right-know-illness-says-new-NHS-chief.html#ixzz3CzUhjmf0
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:52:09 +0000
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