GPs urged to ignore NICE diabetes advice when treating frail elderly
GPs should consider stopping diabetes treatment in frail elderly patients to improve health outcomes...
Exclusive: Three in four GPs say controversial dementia DES did not benefit patients
Three quarters of GPs say the controversial scheme to pay practices £55 per new dementia diagnosis d...
Thousands of patients' data excluded from NHS dementia target data
NHS England says it is closer to its dementia diagnosis target than Health and Social Care Informati...
NHS dementia diagnosis targets missed despite 'harmful' DES
Efforts to boost dementia diagnosis rates have fallen short of NHS England's aims despite a controve...
GP-led fracture prevention scheme could save NHS millions of pounds
An early prevention scheme for bone fractures trialled successfully by a GP federation in Northumber...
Low weight raises dementia risk but obesity lowers it, research suggests
Middle-aged people who are underweight have a 34% higher risk of developing dementia than those with...
Exclusive: GPs need tenfold rise in dementia diagnosis to hit NHS target
GPs would need to increase dementia diagnosis tenfold in March to hit a controversial target set by ...
Lifestyle changes could prevent dementia, researchers find
A programme of healthy eating, exercise and brain training can prevent dementia in at-risk people, a...
Exclusive: NHS England set to miss dementia diagnosis target
NHS England is unlikely to meet its 67% target for diagnosing patients with dementia, analysis by GP...
GPs urged to recruit care home patients for dementia research
GPs who conduct sessions in care homes should encourage patients to sign up for dementia research, a...
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