Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of dementia care in England.

The Department has issued guidance ‘After diagnosis of dementia: what to expect from health and care services’, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/after-a-diagnosis-of-dementia-what-to-expect-from-health-and-care-services/after-diagnosis-of-dementia-what-to-expect-from-health-and-care-services

The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence’s Quality Standard on Dementia, includes guidelines for offering activities such as exercise, aromatherapy, art, gardening, baking, reminiscence therapy, music therapy, mindfulness and animal assisted therapy to help promote wellbeing. The Quality Standard is available at the following link:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/QS184

We are reviewing plans for dementia in England and further information will be available in due course.