PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dementia (6 March 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of undiagnosed dementia in (a) Tenbury Wells County Council Division, (b) Worcestershire and (c) England.

Asked by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)

The information requested is not held. However, the latest dementia diagnosis rate figures reported by NHS Digital are available for January 2023. NHS Digital estimates there are 675,542 people over the age of 65 years old living with dementia in England, of which 417,797 have a recorded dementia diagnosis. NHS Digital also estimates there are 12,119 people over the age of 65 years old living with dementia in the NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrate Care Board, of which 6,290 have a recorded dementia diagnosis. This information is not collected for Tenbury Wells County Council Division.

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
13 March 2023