Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 23678

Dementia: Patients

Tabled: 13 January 2025
Answered: 16 January 2025

Question

Rebecca Smith

ConservativeSouth West Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the dementia diagnosis rate was for people aged under 65 who had developed symptoms on 13 January 2025; and if he will publish a monthly estimate of this rate within national primary care deme

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
The dementia diagnosis rate is not calculated for patients aged under 65 years old. This is because the numbers of patients known to have dementia in the sample population age groups comprising the zero- to 64-year-old age range is not large enough for re...

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