Dementia: Diagnosis
(asked on 22nd May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dementia diagnoses were made in (a) the London Borough of Hounslow and (b) Greater London in each of the last five years.
NHS England collect data on the number of patients with a diagnosis of dementia. The data is available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/primary-care-dementia-data
NHS England are not able to provide the data for Borough of Hounslow. The closest geography that we are able to provide is NHS North West London Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) from March 2019 to March 2022 and for NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) for March 2023. The following table shows the data for of the number of dementia diagnosis in such area.
Year | Area | Number of dementia diagnoses |
March 2023 | NHS North West London ICB | 12,410 |
March 2022 | North West London Health and Care Partnership STP | 12,558 |
March 2021 | North West London Health and Care Partnership STP | 11,993 |
March 2020 | North West London Health and Care Partnership STP | 12,896 |
March 2019 | North West London STP | 13,007 |
Year | Area | Number of dementia diagnoses |
March 2023 | London | 40,894 |
March 2022 | London | 49,866 |
March 2021 | London | 47,709 |
March 2020 | London | 51,707 |
March 2019 | London | 51,727 |