HAVE YOU HEARD THE LATEST NEWS THAT DOCTORS ARE GOING TO BE GIVEN £55 FOR EVERY PATCEINT THEY DIOGNOSE WITH DIMENTIA
I KNOW THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FIBRO DIRECTLY
BUT DOES BARE OUT WHAT I SAY ABOUT DOCTORS BEING PAID BONUSES TO PUSH MEDS AND REFER PEOPLE .
HOW SAVE ARE WE IN THERE HANDS . REALLY .!
MAKES YOU WONDER.
Which country are you talking about?
Would you not welcome such a test if early treatment and meds now available were going to help you?
no
thanks for this tina...really alarming.
what next? section anyone who doesn't take what they dish out?!!!!!!!!!
Where'd you read this, Tina?
If it's true, it's presumably to raise more awareness of early onset dementia and help get early treatment. Dementia is often ignored until old age.
The country is England, not the rest of the UK and it is a 6 month trial.
You can read it on the BBC website
proberly hun .lets face it they know where you are if u have your mobile phone on. sometimes feel that theres a red dot on my fore head .if you know what i mean.
i think its a disgrace that doctors are being given bonuses to do there allready over paid job right . the whole point of becoming a doctor is take care of the sick and infirm. not increase the sick and infirm by not doing there job proberly , then realising that we are far behind other countrys in diognosis and rewarding the doctor for doing his job properly .
hi tina its a good idea as dimentia should be more reconised! but is scarey to think doctors have this power and give people meds so easy, we all forget things quite discusting! great post tina we need to be aware of this x
its in the paper daily mail i think on line .
yes so you think it wont be misused then . just like the pill was only ever going to be prescribed to married women , and prozac was never made for children but there are many children onit. like statins increase your risk of pulmorey heart disease after an heart attack by surprising q10 . big money to be made in both these areas . i think is more likely to be the reason .
many cases of this condition are caused by long term use of some meds anyway . not all of course but iv read many articles on this subject that points to long term use of sleeping pills and ritalin can lead to early dementia .
fare enough but its still a slippery slope
I have retitled this and moved it to the Chatroom group as it is more suitable in that group. There is a blog here https://patient.info/blogs/sarah-says/2014/10/dementia-and-gp-payments-what-s-the-truth about this.
fare enough
I am intrigued by your remark that the pill was only 'going to be prescribed to married women'.
I wonder where you got that from?
I was an early starter on the pill when it first came to England, and no one ever said you had to be married to take it.
On the contrary, it protected all those early-Sixties young girls from having to sit out pregnancies in nasty homes only to have their babies taken away from them.
What it did for married women was one thing. What it did for unmarried women was a revolution.
But this is the first I heard that it was't intended for them. Or was that just the prudish US, do you think?
thanks!and below the piece is an article about conflicts of interest disclosure in NICE re statins. there are conflicts of interest due to members of NICE also being involved with pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and distribute the same drugs they are supposed to be over seeing independently !!!!!!!!!
the pill was started in the early 60s , and a lot of people were against it churches etc , they were given asurances that the pill was only going to be perscribed to married women ,to cut the drudgery of countless pregnancy
and the risk to womens health ,later it became ok to prescribe to engaged couples , i dont think it was ever a law ,but at doctors discretion it just wasnt handed out like it is today . alot of people no little of social history , they think tampax was invented in the 1950s infact it was invented by a man in 1920s .
and the romens and eygptians had early versions of tampons to ,made of i think linen and a soft bark . i will have to refresh my memory got the old fibro fog . but they had them thats a fact .
one of the first ladies to push forward birthcontrol
was marie stopes who started breaking down the taboos of birth control and sex in 1921 opening one of the first clinics that gave some wealthy women freedom from multible pregnancies with the early cervical cap.
marie stopes 1921 cervical cap
That applied to all UK contraception from GP's and Family Planning Centres in the 50's.
Boots did not sell condoms until almost recent times because of the religious beliefs of the founding family.
Did you see the recent version of Downton Abbey where unmarried Lady Mary read a book presumably Married Love by Marie Stopes asked her married maid to go to the village chemist to buy a pessary cap. She was interrogated by the woman behind the counter.
I learnt a lot from that book at a young age when I found it hidden in my mother’s wardrobe.
Derek (UK)
Our GP practice has been offering simple memory tests to the elderly for some time. If a patient fails it they get referred to a memory clinic run by the practice.
I'm getting increasingly concerned that we are following the american model of compliance and corruption.