Dementia

(asked on 26th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of adults in (a) Gillingham and Rainham constituency, (b) Medway and (c) England has been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Norman Lamb Portrait
Norman Lamb
This question was answered on 1st December 2014

Information on the number of people with dementia has been collected since 2006-07. Information is collected at National Health Service organisation level, and not constituency level. Data on the number of people with dementia in England, Medway Primary Care Trust, and the Clinical Commissioning Groups that replaced it, are shown in the following table.

Number of patients on the Quality and Outcomes Framework dementia register and the raw prevalence rate for Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and previously Medway Primary Care Trust (PCT).

Medway

Number of Practices

Total List Size

Dementia Register Counts

Dementia Prevalence Rate

Medway CCG

31 March 2014

57

290,818

1,377

0.47%

31 March 2013

57

284,552

1,332

0.47%

Medway PCT

31 March 2012

60

281,126

1,274

0.45%

31 March 2011

61

282,378

1,093

0.39%

31 March 2010

66

281,829

1,020

0.36%

31 March 2009

63

275,295

946

0.34%

31 March 2008

67

277,800

825

0.30%

31 March 2007

67

276,354

777

0.28%

Number of patients on the Quality and Outcomes Framework dementia register and the raw prevalence rate for England.

England

Number of Practices

Total List Size

Dementia Register Counts

Dementia Prevalence Rate

31 March 2014

7,921

56,324,887

348,973

0.62%

31 March 2013

8,020

56,012,096

318,669

0.57%

31 March 2012

8,123

55,525,732

293,738

0.53%

31 March 2011

8,245

55,169,643

266,697

0.48%

31 March 2010

8,305

54,836,561

249,463

0.45%

31 March 2009

8,229

54,310,660

232,430

0.43%

31 March 2008

8,294

54,009,831

220,246

0.41%

31 March 2007

8,372

53,681,098

212,794

0.40%

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