Alzheimer's Disease: Diagnosis

(asked on 26th 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 additional support his Department has put in place to tackle the backlog in Alzheimer's diagnoses consultations since 2020.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 6th June 2022

In 2021/22, we allocated £17 million to address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. In 2022/23, NHS England will provide funding to general practitioners in specific areas to pilot approaches to improve the dementia diagnosis rate and access to post diagnostic support.

We will set out plans for dementia in England for the next 10 years later this year, which will include a focus on dementia diagnoses.

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