Dementia
(asked on 30th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of people diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.
The data requested is not collected centrally.
NHS England can provide a count of patients with a recorded diagnosis of dementia. This is a count of patients with a dementia diagnosis on their general practice record at the specified point in time irrespective of when the diagnosis was made.
The dementia diagnosis figures for all ages for April of each year for the last 10 years are shown in the table below:
Date | Recorded dementia diagnoses for all ages |
April 2023 | 460,518 |
April 2022 | 443,869 |
April 2021 | 432,129 |
April 2020 | 453,377 |
April 2019 | 469,025 |
April 2018 | 450,106 |
April 2017 | 446,515 |
April 2016 | 413,782 |
April 2015 | 410,092 |
April 2014 | 331,824 |