Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 11 November 2024 to Questions 12677, 12678 and 12679 on Dementia: Reading West and Mid Berkshire, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of collecting data on dementia diagnosis and care centrally.

Local systems rarely hold data by Parliamentary constituency. However, NHS England collects data on the number of people referred for assessments for dementia. This includes data about people diagnosed with dementia, including those who receive medication and care plan reviews. This data is collected centrally and published monthly by NHS England at a national level, and is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/primary-care-dementia-data/

Data on the number of people aged 65 years old and over with a diagnosis of dementia, or who have a prescription for antipsychotic medication, is published monthly by NHS England at regional, integrated care board (ICB), and local authority level.

NHS England has developed an internal dashboard of memory service data for management information purposes. This supports ICBs to provide services appropriate for their local population, providing high quality care and support for each person with dementia.