Ensure all dementia patients have assisted feeding with enough time.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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: Fund dedicated dementia wards in all hospitals

Timeline

30 Dec 2020	Petition opened for signatures
5 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 Jan 2021

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