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Dementia: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to return the dementia diagnosis rate to its target level.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 May 2025
Target answer date
2 Jun 2025
Answer
10 Jun 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 21 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to return the dementia diagnosis rate to its target level.

  2. 2 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    To support recovery of the dementia diagnosis rates, we have developed a memory service dashboard to support commissioners and providers with appropriate data and enable targeted support where needed.We have funded an evidence-based improvement project to...

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