Dementia: Drugs

(asked on 21st September 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 assessment her department has made of the potential merits of convening a dementia medicines taskforce as proposed by the charity Alzheimer’s Research UK in March 2022; and if she will make it her policy to convene such a taskforce.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 11th October 2022

Officials have met Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) and discussed the proposal for a Dementia Medicines Taskforce and considered the merits of the proposal to accelerate patient access to medicines with NHS England. On 14 August 2022, the Government launched the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission, which meets some of the objectives of ARUK’s proposal.

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