A cure for dementia could be just seven years away due to 'incredible advances' in medicine, says Health Secretary

• Jeremy Search added the country's 'tremendous science tradition' is vital to acquiring way forward for NHS
• The United kingdom is going to be first country to map 100,000 genomes to assist takes up illnesses for example cancer
• He added that the ageing population might be 'humanity's finest triumph to date'

By Rachel Reilly

Released: 08:47 GMT, 5 This summer 2013

Health Secretary Jeremy Search stated that drugs companies believe they're near to finding relief from dementia

Researchers are edging nearer to finding relief from dementia, based on the British Health Secretary.

Jeremy Search has stated that 'incredible advances' in British medicine are getting us closer to cure for that age-related brain disease.

Also, he stated the country's 'tremendous science tradition' is vital to acquiring the way forward for the NHS and meeting the difficulties of the ageing society.

Mr Search made the announcement in the annual conference from the Municipality Association in Manchester, based on the Telegraph.

'Finding drugs that may halt or cure dementia may appear a distant prospect now but you will find drugs firms that think they're going to have relief from dementia by 2020.'

He added the United kingdom would be the first country on the planet to map 100,000 genomes and decode patients' health background. This could unlock a 'treasure trove' of knowledge to tackle illnesses for example cancer, he described.

He went so far as to state the project will be the medical same as the invention from the internet, when it comes to its significance. More...

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He later described that communities ought to be judged incidentally they are concerned for his or her seniors citizens and added that the progressively old population ought to be perceived less a 'ticking time bomb' but maybe as 'humanity's finest triumph up to now.'

Mr Search added by using the right care we ought to avoid seeing the growing seniors population like a 'ticking time bomb' but rather 'humanity's finest triumph to date'

To do this, he stated that local government bodies and also the NHS must interact to locate solutions that will ensure all seniors everyone was treated the way in which anybody want their grandparent to become cared for.

The 3 support beams of reform were layed out to be as opposed to the prior government's 'more targets, more pressure, more corporate objectives'.

This had led to 'unspeakable human tragedy' such as with Mid Staffordshire.

Mr Search came to the conclusion that later on every patient would obtain a named clinician so people understood whose responsibility it had been when problems came about.

He stated he'd such as this person is the GP or somebody that could 'rediscover the tradition of private responsibility'.