Question follow-through · 43454
Dementia: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle regional differences in (a) timely and (b) accurate diagnostic rates for dementia.
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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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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle regional differences in (a) timely and (b) accurate diagnostic rates for dementia.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
We are committed to recovering the dementia diagnosis rate (DDR) 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 da...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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