Letters
Open letter to Simon Stevens and Alistair Burns
Response to the open letter of Martin Brunet (and colleagues)
BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g6866 (Published 18 November 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g6866
- Alistair Burns, professor of old age psychiatry and national clinical director for dementia, NHS England1
- 1Core Technology Facility, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9NT, UK
- alistair.burns{at}manchester.ac.uk
I thank Brunet (and colleagues) for writing about the National Enhanced Service for dementia and wish to clarify some factual misunderstandings.1
Firstly, dementia is a devastating illness and the enhanced service will support activity aimed at reaching the estimated 300 000 people who would benefit from a timely diagnosis and care planning but are currently being denied that. These benefits include: empowering people to make their own choices; access to the right care packages, including drugs; avoidance …
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