Dementia: Diagnosis
Commons · Question 28291 · Tabled 3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients with dementia living in (a) rural and (b) socio economically-deprived areas are diagnosed as quickly as those in other areas.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 10 Feb 2025
Given the level of inequalities known within dementia diagnosis, NHS England commissioned the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) to develop a resource to support investigation of the underlying variation in dementia diagnosis rates.The O...