Written question asked by Elliot Colburn (Conservative) on Friday, 23 February 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 27 February 2024. It was answered by Helen Whately (Conservative) on Monday, 4 March 2024 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Dementia

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the dementia diagnosis rate was for people aged under 65 who had developed symptoms on 23 February 2024; and if she will publish a monthly estimate of this rate within national primary care dementia data.

Answer

The dementia diagnosis rate is not calculated for patients aged under 65 years old. This is because the numbers of patients known to have dementia in the sample population age groups comprising those aged between zero and 64 years old are not large enough for reliable estimates to be made.

The dementia diagnosis rate for patients aged 65 years old and over is calculated and published monthly via the Primary Care Dementia Data publication, which is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/primary-care-dementia-data

This publication does include a monthly count of the number of patients aged 65 years old and under who do have a dementia diagnosis on their patient record; this is expressed as a raw count and as a percentage of registered patients aged between zero and 64 years old.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 15482
Session: 2023-24
Subjects: Dementia
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

Dementia

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