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Coming up today, CT scans, is it a good idea for people to arrange their own

to try and pick up cancers and heart problems before symptoms develop?

Two leading experts concerned about the risks coming up later.

H.R.T, our recent item on tackling hot flushes,

prompted a flurry of emails,

and Professor Marianne Lumsden is back to answer your queries,

including one about hot flushes in men.

And anticoagulants, I'll be learning more about the latest alternatives

to the market leader, Warfarin.

But first, financial incentives for doctors. The announcement that GPs in England will be paid £55 a time for

diagnosing people with dementia prompted quite a reaction last week. The move didn't seem to be too

popular with anyone, including GPs, but it's not the first time doctors

have been offered such incentives. Martin Rowland is Professor of Health Services Research at the University

of Cambridge. Well, in fact, they've been used in the NHS for a long time. Back to 1990,

when GPs were first given extra payments for meeting targets for getting cervical smears done

and for getting immunizations for children done.

But then there was a very big change about 10 years ago when they were given a large additional payment for meeting a wide range of quality targets for diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure and asthma.

What do we know about how well they work?

Well, they work to a degree,

but they don't work quite as well as a lot of people would like them to work, and they can sometimes go wrong. For example, relating to the treatment of depression. Now, at the time it was known that

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