United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 4539
Dementia: Diagnosis
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18 May 2022
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1 June 2022 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the barriers to timely dementia diagnosis; what estimate he has made of the size of the backlog in dementia diagnosis through Memory Assessment Services;
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18 May 2022
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the barriers to timely dementia diagnosis; what estimate he has made of the size of the backlog in dementia diagnosis through Memory Assessment Services;
Source: Commons
1 June 2022
Answer
In April 2022, the dementia diagnosis rate was 61.8%. The pandemic has affected the provision of memory assessment services and the number of general practitioner (GP) referrals to those services. No specific estimate of the backlog has been made. However...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-05-18/4539
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1464138
- uk · wq-1464138 · source updated 1 June 2022