What's the matter with you? Well now...

What are we to make of this scheme to pay doctors £55 for each diagnosis of dementia they make? Just who gets the money?  If it's the doctor personally - that is as part of his salary - then the cynic in me says that a lot of people who are perhaps merely old and forgetful are going to be diagnosed just to get the money. And if it is going to go to the practice to help with treatment, then once again my cynical side says - is £55 really going to make any significant difference?  Can't imagine that £55 gets you much these days.  And my final thought is - should you really be paying doctors to do what they should be doing anyway?