PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dementia: Diagnosis (15 July 2022)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people awaiting a dementia diagnosis.
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Answer
The information is not held in the format requested.
However, as of June 2022, NHS Digital estimates there are 698,345 people over 65 years old living with dementia, of which 447,415 have a recorded dementia diagnosis.
Answered by:
Gillian Keegan (Conservative)
25 July 2022
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