When the nurse rang with my 79-year-old mother’s brain scan results, she admitted she didn’t know what the report meant. But she knew I was a doctor, so asked me to explain it to her.
The nurse hadn’t been trained for this, so of course I don’t blame her.
But it speaks volumes about the state of dementia services in this country that she was put in the position of having to do a doctor’s job, because the service she worked in didn’t have one.
Last week Professor Sir Mike Richards, the former director of cancer services in England, said that dementia patients
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