Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 28291

Dementia: Diagnosis

Tabled: 3 February 2025
Answered: 10 February 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

Conservative — Isle of Wight East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients with dementia living in (a) rural and (b) socio economically-deprived areas are diagnosed as quickly as those in other areas.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Given the level of inequalities known within dementia diagnosis, NHS England commissioned the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) to develop a resource to support investigation of the underlying variation in dementia diagnosis rates.The O...
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