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 KinnockGiven 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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