Question follow-through · 37364
Dementia: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments
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.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
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.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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