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Vitamin B12
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency and reduce the number of cases misdiagnosed as (a) dementia, (b) chronic fatigue syndrome and (c) psychiatric
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency and reduce the number of cases misdiagnosed as (a) dementia, (b) chronic fatigue syndrome and (c) psychiatric
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published guidance in March 2024 on the diagnosis and management of vitamin B12 deficiency in over 16 year olds. The guidance is available at the following link:http://nice.org.uk/guidance/ng239...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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