Dementia: Research

(asked on 8th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of funding available for research into (a) treatments and (b) diagnostic tests for dementia; and what steps he is taking to increase research funding for those purposes.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st February 2022

There has not been a recent assessment of funding available for research into dementia treatments and diagnostic tests. We are investing £375 million in neurodegenerative disease research over the next five years. This funding will support research on dementia treatments and diagnosis. Further actions to boost dementia research include a new £9 million call inviting research proposals to the National Institute for Health Research on digital approaches for the early detection and diagnosis of dementia, launched in November 2021. We are working on ways to significantly boost further research on dementia, and we will be setting out our plans on dementia for England for future years later this year.

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