Dementia: Diagnosis

(asked on 17th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) number of people living with undiagnosed dementia in England and (b) time it will take to diagnose those people.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 25th May 2022

As of April 2022, NHS Digital estimates there are 693,868 people living with dementia in England aged 65 years old and over, of whom 429,062 have a recorded dementia diagnosis.

In 2021/22, we allocated £17 million to address waiting lists for dementia services caused by the pandemic and increase the number of diagnoses. To support recovery of the dementia diagnosis rate and access to post diagnostic support in 2022/23, NHS England will provide funding to support general practitioners to pilot approaches in some areas. We will set out plans for dementia in England for the next 10 years later this year, which will include a focus on diagnosis.

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