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Written Question
Dementia: Care Homes
Wednesday 22nd March 2023

Asked by: David Johnston (Conservative - Wantage)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of care home residents with dementia but without a psychosis diagnosis have been prescribed anti-psychotic drugs in the last 12 months.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

This information is not held in the format requested. The number of people living with dementia but without a diagnosis of psychosis who have been prescribed antipsychotic medication in the last six weeks was 31,451 at the end of February 2023.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"T6.   Last year I raised with the Department worrying data from the Alzheimer's Society about the number of care home residents with dementia who were being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs when they did not have a psychosis diagnosis. Can my hon. Friend provide an update on the current levels of prescribing?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 21 Jun 2022
Access to GP Services and NHS Dentistry

"All the GP surgeries in my constituency have worked incredibly hard throughout this period. I saw some of that up close when I was volunteering with the vaccination effort in the weeks that I could. The entire period has been a complete whirlwind for them, and they went straight back …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 21 Jun 2022
Access to GP Services and NHS Dentistry

"I completely agree; the hon. Lady has made an important point. Sometimes, what people present with is not the biggest issue in their lives, and a skilled practitioner can uncover that.

As has been touched on, the issue is partly about telephone systems, bizarrely, as I will come on to, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Jan 2022
Covid-19 Update

"I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement about reducing the self-isolation period. I have a number of constituents who have not seen their relatives in care homes for a considerable time. A member of my own family can have one visitor but has been confined to her small room for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Covid-19 Update

"Over 90% of the people getting the most serious care for covid are unvaccinated. Does my right hon. Friend agree that if people are not getting a vaccine without good reason, they do not just endanger themselves, but put a strain on the NHS that it does not need when …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Oct 2021
Covid-19 Update

"People in Wantage and Didcot, and across Oxfordshire, have been doing a great job of administering the vaccine to 12 to 15-year-olds, as they did for the older age groups, but unfortunately a small minority of people have been giving them abuse for that. Will my hon. Friend join me …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Jun 2021
Social Care Reform

"On Friday I met my constituent Phil, whose mother, given the state of her dementia, has gone to into a care home. The day before I met my constituent Denise, who is trying to keep her mum, who has Alzheimer’s, in her own home. I think they are pretty typical …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Jun 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

" What steps his Department is taking to support the full restoration of GP services as part of the covid-19 recovery. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Jun 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"I have been contacted in recent weeks by quite a number of constituents who are struggling to get a GP appointment, but we have a pre-covid problem as well, which is that thousands and thousands of new houses have gone into the constituency without an increase in GP services. Will …..."
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