Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament

Rejected petition Ensure all dementia patients have assisted feeding with enough time.

Ensure when dementia patients are in the hospital they get the correct care especially at meal times.
Have more time given to them if needing assistance with feeding and are getting the correct food they needs for specialist diets.

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Have cqc ensuring all hospitals are treating dementia patients as a human being not giving up due to dementia and ensure all hospitals have enough staff to sit as long as it takes for a dementia patient to eat

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Treatment of individual patients is a clinical matter for individual clinicians and local NHS trusts, not the Government or House of Commons.

We have published the following related petition, which you might like to sign:

Fund dedicated dementia wards in all hospitals: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325517

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