. >> allison mcgovern. >> thank you, mr. speaker. many of my constituents worry about the quality of care older people especially those with dementia receive in hospitals how does the prime minister think his topdown reorganization at the nhs will help make sure older people are looked after with real

. >> allison mcgovern. >> thank you, mr. speaker. many of my constituents worry about the quality of care older people especially those with dementia receive in hospitals how does the prime minister think his topdown reorganization at the nhs will help make sure older people are looked after with real dignity? >> well, one of the whole aims of the changes we're making to the nhs must be to better link up the national health service and social service provision and local authorities in how we look after the elderly and all of us have seen too many cases in hospital where people who should be in either residential or nursing care all being looked after at home are stuck in either large district general hospitals or indeed in community hospitals when they should be getting alternative pathways of care. that's what the whole change should be about. as i'm finding when i go around the country listening to doctors, nurses and clinicians we must make sure we take this opportunity to get this absolutely right. that's what the reforms should