Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to work with Dementia UK to increase the number of Admiral nurses.

Provision of dementia health care services is the responsibility of local Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). NHS England would expect ICBs to commission services, which may include Admiral Nurses, based on local population needs. “The Dementia Care Pathway: Full implementation guidance”, was commissioned by NHS England. This document urges commissioners to engage in local system leadership and develop an improvement agenda jointly with key partners including health and social care providers, local government and the voluntary sector with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of the whole population. The Department is not taking any specific steps to increase the number of Admiral Nurses, who are developed and supported by Dementia UK as an independent charitable organisation.