Dementia
(asked on 20th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with dementia are currently detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.
This question was answered on 25th April 2018
The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Although diagnosis is recorded in the Mental Health Services Data Set, this is a new area of investigation on which detailed data quality assessment and detailed analysis would be required.