Dementia patients must receive part of a £2.4billion NHS fund to help with care costs, MPs say

Dementia patients must receive part of a £2.4billion NHS fund to help with care costs, MPs say Dementia patients must be given part of a £2.4 billion NHS fund to help with ‘unfair and unsustainable’ care costs, MPs will say today.

A cross-party group of 68 MPs demanded sufferers be given a personal budget of thousands of pounds a year.

This could be spent on the care costs required to live with the disease such as home adaptations and care home costs - which are up to 15 per cent more expensive for patients with dementia as they are deemed more difficult to look after. The Daily Mail