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Dementia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of joined up working between local authority social services and the NHS in dementia cases where a patient and their carer live in different local author

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
5 Jan 2026
Answer
9 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 18 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of joined up working between local authority social services and the NHS in dementia cases where a patient and their carer live in different local author

  2. 5 Jan 2026

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  3. 9 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Carer support where a carer lives in a different local authority or National Health Service integrated care board area is not specifically detailed in the dementia guidance documents. However, all core dementia guidance, including The Dementia 100, The De...

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