Veteran newsreader Jon Snow and actors Sir Jonathan Pryce, Suranne Jones and Vicky McClure are among 60,000 people to have signed a letter demanding ‘better for everyone affected by dementia’.
The petition, which will be delivered to Downing Street today, calls for a ‘bold and ambitious’ plan for earlier dementia diagnoses as new research reveals many patients face crippling waits of over six months.
Alzheimer’s Society, which gathered the signatures, wants a new national target to be put in place to ensure everyone with dementia receives an accurate diagnosis within 18 weeks of a GP referral, as well as a care plan
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