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Financial Sustainability in the NHS: Holding Up a Mirror? Reflection (BBC News / NHS Improvement / NHS England / BMJ / OECD / BJS)

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The authors of the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) report believe that the NHS may not actually need further money from the taxpayer, asserting that efficiency savings identified (in the field of general surgery alone, and without looking … Continue reading →

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Significant Changes at the World Dementia Council? (WDC)

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary There has been reform within the World Dementia Council (WDC). The changes are intended to make this body “more representative” in global terms (if such were possible) and fully independent. The Council now includes a wider range of international … Continue reading →

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Government Commitment to the Global Action Against Dementia (WDC / Department of Health)

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Department of Health has responded to Raj Long’s Finding a path for a cure for dementia: an independent report into an integrated approach to dementia drug development report, with a Strategy Report and an open letter. There is … Continue reading →

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Challenges in Developing Disease-Modifying Treatments for Dementia (Department of Health)

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Raj Long, the Senior Regulatory Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explores the problems in developing treatments for dementia. The independent “Finding a Path for the Cure for Dementia” report is a contribution to the G8 Dementia … Continue reading →

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New World Dementia Council Website (WDC)

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary An announcement has been released from the pre-existing World Dementia Council (WDC) site that a fresh World Dementia Council website (on the WordPress platform) has been launched. The older site will no longer be updated. The benefits of this … Continue reading →

Announcements From WHO’s First Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia Conference (Dementia Challenge / Department of Health / World Dementia Council / WHO / GAAD)

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a $100 million Dementia Discovery Fund at the World Health Organisation’s First Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia Conference. The Dementia Discovery Fund will be used to finance dementia research with the … Continue reading →

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Global Action Against Dementia and World Dementia Council: Progress Reports (Dementia Challenge / Department of Health / World Dementia Council / GAAD)

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Coinciding, roughly, with the First Global Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia, which is currently hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva between March 16th – 17th 2015, the World Dementia Council (WDC) has released a … Continue reading →

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