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Dementia: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve levels of (a) early and (b) accurate diagnosis for dementia; and if he will take steps to help increase the use of (i) blood tests and (ii) AI-driven

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
8 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 2 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve levels of (a) early and (b) accurate diagnosis for dementia; and if he will take steps to help increase the use of (i) blood tests and (ii) AI-driven

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    We are committed to recovering the dementia diagnosis rate to the national ambition of 66.7%, which in England, at the end of February 2025, was 65.4%. To support the implementation of the Dementia Care Pathway, we have developed a memory service dashboar...

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