Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the dementia diagnosis rate in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.

The national target for dementia diagnosis is that 66.7% of the prevalent population has a diagnosis of dementia. Lincolnshire is at 67.8% because of prioritising improvements in diagnosis rates.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) have set up a Dementia Diagnosis Rate (DDR) working group established with action plan to drive forward DDR recovery. This includes improving LPFT data and using the Population Health Management tool to identify any discrepancies with practice dementia registers.

To support recovery of the dementia diagnosis rates and implementation of the Dementia Care Pathway, NHS England has developed a dashboard for management information purposes. The aim is to support commissioners and providers of memory services with appropriate data.