Written questions

Dementia: Diagnosis

Commons · Question 50811 · Tabled 7 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 May 2025

Question

Asked by Gregory Stafford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to reinstate a national target for local health systems to improve dementia diagnosis rates in future iterations of the NHS Operational Planning Guidance.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 16 May 2025

The Government and NHS England remain committed to recovering the dementia diagnosis rate to the national ambition of 66.7%.The NHS Operational Planning Guidance is not an exhaustive list of everything the National Health Service does, and the absence of ...