Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of adults in (a) Medway and (b) England have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last five years.
Information is not available in the format requested.
Information on the number of patients recorded as having a diagnosis of dementia on the practice dementia register, the total number of registered patients and the estimated dementia prevalence rate for England and NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for the last five years and is shown in the following tables.
Number of patients on the dementia register, the number of registered patients and prevalence, England. 2012/13 to 2016/17 | |||||
| 2016/17 | 2015/16 | 2014/15 | 2013/14 | 2012/13 |
Registered patients | 58,029,147 | 56,458,662 | 56,817,654 | 56,324,887 | 56,012,096 |
Patients on the dementia register | 443,839 | 428,343 | 419,073 | 348,973 | 318,669 |
Prevalence | 0.76 | 0.76 | 0.74 | 0.62 | 0.57 |
Number of patients on the dementia register, the number of registered patients and prevalence, NHS Medway CCG. 2012/13 to 2016/17 | |||||
| 2016/17 | 2015/16 | 2014/15 | 2013/14 | 2012/13 |
Registered patients | 294,834 | 292,050 | 291,501 | 290,818 | 284,552 |
Patients on the dementia register | 1,609 | 1,674 | 1,597 | 1,377 | 1,332 |
Prevalence | 0.55 | 0.57 | 0.55 | 0.47 | 0.47 |
Sources: NHS Digital. Quality and Outcomes Framework data collection.