GP ‘bribes’ to diagnose dementia undermine patients’ trust in doctors Paying GPs to identify dementia undermines patients’ trust in doctors, a study suggests.
In recent years, health officials have introduced a series of schemes which typically pay family doctors £55 a head for every patient classed as having the condition.
The initiatives came despite concern from some GPs that they would be seen as “bribes” which could sway doctors towards misdiagnosis. The Daily Telegraph
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