Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 74095
Dementia: Diagnosis
Tabled: 2 September 2025
Answered: 12 September 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve levels of early diagnoses of dementia.
Answer
Stephen KinnockWe are committed to recovering the dementia diagnosis rate (DDR) to the national ambition of 66.7%. The estimated DDR for patients aged 65 years old and over at the end of July 2025 was 66.1%. The rate is an increase of 0.3% compared to the 65.8% in June ...
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