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Dementia

Commons · Question 67821 · Tabled 15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 21 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Gregory Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with dementia in (a) 2020 and (b) 2024.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 21 Jul 2025

The data requested is not collected centrally.We can provide a count of patients with a recorded diagnosis of dementia. This is a count of patients with a dementia diagnosis on their general practice record at the specified point in time irrespective of w...