The North East Essex MCI practitioner role and service pathway: A description

Routine clinical investigations in the memory clinic may identify a degree of cognitive impairment that does not reach threshold criteria for a dementia diagnosis. A mild cognitive impairment may be the beginnings of a progressive decline for some people. How should services respond to those people, for whom a MCI is the beginning of a progressive decline and ensure a timely diagnosis is ultimately provided? This article describes our attempt at a solution.