Hospitals to get dementia doctors

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Health Secretary Alan Johnson and Care Services Minister Phil Hope will unveil the long-awaited National Dementia Strategy, which is aimed at improving diagnosis and treatment while saving almost £1 billion.

A senior clinician in every hospital and care home will ensure that the needs of dementia sufferers are met, the Strategy will say.

There are currently around 700,000 people in the UK with dementia but the figure is rising as people live longer.

The strategy will also outline plans to provide more support to carers with the aim of preventing or delaying the admission of sufferers to care homes.

But a review of the use of anti-psychotic drugs - one of the most controversial aspects of caring for people with dementia in care homes - will not be published until the Spring.

As previously announced, every GP will be trained to spot the first signs of dementia while "memory clinics" will be set up in every town to help sufferers live their lives as normally as possible.

Neil Hunt, chief executive of Alzheimer's Society, said: "The National Dementia Strategy for England is the Government's ambitious five-year plan to transform the lives of those living with this devastating condition.

"There is a long way to go to drag dementia care out of the dark ages but this announcement is a huge opportunity. Too often we hear from families left to battle dementia alone."

Mr Hunt said that one in three people over 65 will die with dementia but there was currently a "systematic failure" to provide good dementia care in the UK.