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A document leaked to 91Èȱ¬ Radio Northampton reveals that the NHS is planning to make substantial cuts to dementia services in Northamptonshire.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is proposing to make some specialist dementia staff redundant, downgrade the skill requirements of others and reduce their pay, and plans to have GPs provide additional support.

Reporter Willy Gilder meets a Paulerspury man whose wife died 12 months ago after being diagnosed with Alzheimers.

Stuart talks to Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Northampton North Sally Keeble, to the Conservative MP for Northampton North Michael Ellis, and to Professor Robert Howard, the Chair of Old Age Psychiatry at Kings College London.

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