Dementia diagnosis rates have improved since the pandemic. (Image: Getty) More people than ever before are living with a diagnosis of dementia in England as the NHS battles to boost detection rates. A record 487,432 people were known to be living with dementia as of June – but hundreds of thousands more have it. With … Read more
The party that triumphs in next month’s election must finally end the crisis in access to NHS and so (Image: Getty) The party that triumphs in next month’s election must finally end the crisis in access to NHS and social care services for older people, Age UK declares today. The charity’s latest damning report lays … Read more
Ministers are under pressure to tackle the crisis in social care, after analysis revealed up to a third of beds in some hospitals are taken up by patients medically fit to leave. An average of 13,622 patients were stuck on wards across England in February, according to analysis by the House of Commons Library. This … Read more
