The first national audit conducted over the care of dementia patients have found that many hospitals of England doesn’t have well qualified medical staff to provide care and treatment to dementia patients. It has been revealed that some of the hospitals have not formed policies of staying in touch with the family members of dementia patients.

It has come to light that the basic requirements of dementia patients are not being provided by hospitals which claim of providing treatment to dementia patients. The emotional satisfaction and confusion of dementia patients are left unnoticed by majority of the hospitals.

A survey, conducted over the medical staff of 55 hospitals of the England and Wales and 105 observations of care of dementia patients, has found that only 50% of the staff wasn’t trained for conducting communication with the dementia patients. Moreover, 54% of the staff was unaware as to how to handle the aggressive behavior of patients.

Commenting on the findings of the survey, the Chief Executive of Alzheimer's Society, Jeremy Hughes said, "This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care…it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm”.

Following disclosure about the sorry state of the dementia patients, it is been recommended that the staff responsible for providing care to dementia patients should be trained. Moreover, adequate staff should be recruited so that the dementia patients could be provided with effective care.

It has been revealed that many hospitals are using antipsychotics frequently over dementia patients, which against the guidelines. The NHS guidelines clearly highlights that antipsychotics should be prescribed to dementia patients to control the aggressive and depressed behavior. However, reasons behind frequent prescription of antipsychotics have not yet been provided by the medical staff.