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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Michael Gillard & Martin Bagot

Social workers told not to ask dementia patients who PM is due to high turnaround

Social workers may stop asking dementia patients who the Prime Minister is in memory tests due to the high turnaround at Number 10.

After three leaders in four months, it was felt the question was unfair as those without the disease may also struggle to name the current leader amid the Tory turmoil.

Warnings were given in a training session for social workers about dementia patients in Derbyshire last week.

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