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Use Of Antipsychotics For Dementia

EDM number 504 in 2010-12, proposed by Jim Dobbin on 14/07/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Elderly people and Mental health.

That this House notes that dementia is a devastating illness which currently afflicts approximately 820,000 people in the UK; is therefore deeply concerned by the findings of Professor Sube Banerjee's 2009 Report entitled, The use of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia, which highlighted that only one in five patients derived positive benefits from antipsychotic medication and that approximately 1,800 patients are estimated to die annually as a result of inappropriate antipsychotic prescribing; considers the upcoming National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) HTM on dementia as an ideal opportunity for NICE to consider the use of antipsychotics; calls on the Government to intervene urgentlyto stop the over-prescription of antipsychotics for dementia patients and fully implement Professor Banerjee's specific recommendation to reduce inappropriate use of antipsychotics and promote more effective and appropriate pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for dementia patients; and further calls on the Government to enforce NICE Quality Standards on Dementia.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jim Dobbin14/07/2010Heywood and MiddletonLabourProposed
Tim Farron14/07/2010Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mark Durkan14/07/2010FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Ian Liddell-Grainger14/07/2010Bridgwater and West SomersetConservativeSeconded
David Crausby14/07/2010Bolton North EastLabourSeconded
Paul Flynn14/07/2010Newport WestLabourSeconded
Joe Benton14/07/2010BootleLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley14/07/2010Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Eric Illsley15/07/2010Barnsley CentralLabourWithdrawn
Glenda Jackson15/07/2010Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
Martin Caton15/07/2010GowerLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn15/07/2010Islington NorthLabourSigned
Andrew George15/07/2010St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock15/07/2010Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Blenkinsop15/07/2010Middlesbrough South and East ClevelandLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins15/07/2010Luton NorthLabourSigned
Oliver Heald19/07/2010North East HertfordshireConservativeSigned
John Leech19/07/2010Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming19/07/2010Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell19/07/2010Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden19/07/2010Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner20/07/2010BolsoverLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper20/07/2010West LancashireLabourSigned
Jim Shannon21/07/2010StrangfordDUPSigned
Nigel Dodds21/07/2010Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Hywel Francis21/07/2010AberavonLabourSigned
John Pugh22/07/2010SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Glyn Davies26/07/2010MontgomeryshireConservativeSigned
Margaret Ritchie26/07/2010South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Grahame Morris26/07/2010EasingtonLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell07/09/2010Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Gregory Campbell15/12/2010East LondonderryDUPSigned

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