Dementia: Diagnosis

(asked on 7th November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2022 to Question 13826 on Dementia: Diagnosis, when he plans to publish further details of the financial support that will be provided by his Department to help tackle the backlog of dementia diagnoses.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 15th November 2022

Last financial year, £17 million was made available to Clinical Commissioning Groups to specifically address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. Work to improve dementia diagnosis rates will continue in 2022/23.

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