NHS: Dementia Treatment Trials Debate
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NHS: Dementia Treatment Trials
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Baroness Merron (Lab)
My noble friend is right: we want to encourage people to come forward for diagnosis and care. On the point that my noble friend and the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, made about an awareness campaign, I will raise that with the Minister for Care.
Lord Harper (Con)
My Lords, NHS England has said that implementing some of the new, promising drugs that exist, when they get clearance from NICE, is going to be one of the biggest challenges the NHS has faced in its 75 years. Is the Minister confident that the steps that she has set out for improving diagnosis are up to that challenge, so that we can reduce the proportion of dementia patients who do not receive a diagnosis—around a third—to much smaller levels?