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Dementia

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve dementia (a) diagnosis, (b) research and (c) treatment.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 Oct 2024
Target answer date
31 Oct 2024
Answer
8 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve dementia (a) diagnosis, (b) research and (c) treatment.

  2. 31 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    NHS England is committed to improving diagnosis rates and recovering them to the national ambition for two thirds of people with dementia to have a formal diagnosis.NHS England publishes a monthly report detailing the number of people with a recorded deme...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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