‘Cash-for-diagnosis’ scheme sees doctors claim more dementia cases

‘Doctors given a financial incentive to ensure dementia patients were recognised were part of a spike in diagnoses for the disease during a six-month campaign, figures show.

The political push to make sure that dementia patients were diagnosed quickly and efficiently resulted in a jump in the rates of diagnoses, which then fell once the health service “took its eye off the ball,” one charity said.

In 2012 Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to focus on dementia diagnoses and the care offered to patients, but the figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre on Wednesday suggest that the disease was often missed by GPs.’

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