A poor show for evidence on Health Questions in Parliament today 26/2/13
Originally published in Margaret’s own blog. The lack of evidence based discussion in Parliament is rather disconcerting. First, there was praise for Silverstar charity , who offer diabetes screening –...
View ArticleDementia Dissenters – Not Just the Usual Suspects
When the Health Secretary stood up in the House of Commons at the end of February to declare that ‘Some GPs still think that it is not worth diagnosing someone with dementia’, I am sure that he had...
View ArticleDementia Screening – Head to Head in the BMJ
With the details of the GP dementia DES finally beginning to emerge, the BMJ this week has chosen to make this the subject of it’s regular Head-to-Head article, asking the question: Would doctors...
View Article10 Minutes for the Patient
Mr Jones comes to see me. He is only 62, but has high blood pressure, had a stroke two years ago and still has a noticeable limp as he walks down the corridor to my room. Like most patients, Mr Jones...
View ArticleDoes the epidemiology of dementia constitute an ‘epidemic’, and does it...
Originally posted by Shibley Rahman on the blog of Socialist Health Association on JUNE 23, 2013, reproduced by kind permission of the author The whole use of language surrounding the diagnosis of...
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