Posted on 07/03/2012 6:38:09 AM PDT by opentalk
Thousands of dementia sufferers are being abandoned by the NHS, with shocking variations in the time it takes to get a diagnosis and support.
Waiting periods for vital memory services average at least three months--but they can vary from a few weeks to more than a year, reveals a damning report by a group of MPs.
And some patients are not informed for at least five years that they have the disease, meaning treatments that are available are not as effective. Early diagnosis is key to staving off the ravages of the killer brain disease--yet almost 60 percent with dementia in the UK never get a diagnosis.
Andrew Chidgey, of the Alzheimer’s Society, said: “It is completely unacceptable this is happening. It would be a travesty if we let it continue. “
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
That’s obvious. They’re all in Labour. Or maybe Respect.
If you want to see something truly creepy, look up the National Health Service’s “Transition Care Pathway”. It’s a death sentence for every conceivable medical situation and starts with “Stage One: Recognising the need to move on.”
Then, ponder our future.
Let’s be honest.
This is the FedGov’s answer to the Social Security and Medicare financial implosion.
If they can get the life expectancy low enough, it all works!
Welcome, America, to the British NHS. That may not be what you were promised when your president first dreamed up Obamacare. But the National Health Service is what you’re going to get all the same.
I did warn you about this, four years ago in my (depressingly) prophetic book “Welcome to Obamaland: I’ve Seen Your Future and It Doesn’t Work.” I noted, for example, that your future president had grossly underestimated the costs of socialized health care.
This is what liberals wanted us to quit smoking for? To eat 'lite'. Everything about liberals is twisted.
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