Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Royal College of Nursing on the implications for his policies of the link between dementia and high blood pressure.

There have been no recent discussions with the Royal College of Nursing on the implications for policy of the link between dementia and high blood pressure. However, on 17 May we published a call for evidence giving the public, charities, patient groups and other stakeholders an opportunity to inform the Major Conditions Strategy, helping to build consensus on what actions need to be prioritised. We would welcome contributions from the Royal College of Nursing and others on the implications for policy of the link between dementia and high blood pressure. The call for evidence can be found at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/major-conditions-strategy-call-for-evidence.