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Dementia: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments

Commons · Question 37364 · Tabled 11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 20 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Josh Babarinde

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) improve early diagnosis rates and (b) support the (i) development and (ii) availability of treatments for dementia.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 20 Mar 2025

The Government is committed to transforming diagnostic services and will support the National Health Service to increase diagnostic capacity to meet the demand for diagnostic services through investment in new capacity, including magnetic resonance imagin...