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Dementia: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will increase the number of dementia specialist nurses working in transitions of care roles.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Mar 2025
Target answer date
25 Mar 2025
Answer
27 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will increase the number of dementia specialist nurses working in transitions of care roles.

  2. 25 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Government wants a society where every person with dementia receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life.The provision of dementia health care services is the responsibility of local integrated care boards (ICBs)...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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