Dementia: Lancashire

(asked on 27th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of adults in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Norman Lamb Portrait
Norman Lamb
This question was answered on 4th December 2014

Information is not available in the format requested.

Information on the number of patients on the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) dementia register and the raw prevalence rate for the specified organisations are shown in the following tables.

Data are shown for each of the last eight years only due to the inclusion of dementia on the QOF register from 2006-07.

Number of patients on the QOF dementia register, and the raw prevalence rate for East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and East Lancashire Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT).

East Lancashire

Number of practices

Total list size

Dementia register counts

Dementia prevalence rates

East Lancashire CCG

31 March 2014

59

371,608

2,323

0.63%

31 March 2013

61

367,891

2,197

0.60%

East Lancashire PCT

31 March 2012

65

386,187

2,183

0.57%

31 March 2011

67

388,324

1,975

0.51%

31 March 2010

67

388,267

1,848

0.48%

31 March 2009

65

388,345

1,715

0.44%

31 March 2008

65

387,543

1,774

0.46%

31 March 2007

65

386,260

1,744

0.45%

Number of patients on the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) dementia register, and the raw prevalence rate for the whole of Lancashire.

All Lancashire

Number of practices

Total list size

Dementia register counts

Dementia prevalence rates

Lancashire Area Team1

31 March 2014

231

1,519,892

10,408

0.68%

31 March 2013

235

1,520,393

9,655

0.64%

Total of Lancashire PCTs2

31 March 2012

237

1,520,588

8,933

0.59%

31 March 2011

240

1,514,700

8,046

0.53%

31 March 2010

244

1,514,483

7,538

0.50%

31 March 2009

243

1,513,166

7,118

0.47%

31 March 2008

244

1,505,934

6,911

0.46%

31 March 2007

248

1,497,074

6,812

0.46%

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

Notes:

  1. Data are shown for each of the last eight years due to the inclusion of dementia on the QOF register from only 2006-07.
  2. Data are not available by constituency but are shown by East PCT and East Lancashire CCG due to NHS organisational changes in 2013.
  3. Data are for all patients.
  4. The number of people recorded on practice disease registers is available in the QOF, published by the HSCIC. The numbers of diagnoses are not available but the numbers of people on the dementia register are available. This is a measure of prevalence rather than incidence.
  5. The number of patients on clinical registers can be used to calculate disease prevalence, expressing the number of patients on each register as a percentage of the number of patients on practices’ lists. Therefore ‘raw prevalence’ for a clinical area is defined as: Raw prevalence = (number on clinical register / number on practice list) * 100
  6. The objective of the QOF is to improve the quality of care patients are given by rewarding practices for the quality of care they provide to their patients. QOF is therefore an incentive payment scheme. Participation by practices is entirely voluntary, though participation rates are high.
  7. As QOF registers are constructed to underpin indicators on quality of care, they do not necessarily equate to prevalence as may be defined by epidemiologists. For example, prevalence figures based on QOF registers may differ from prevalence figures from other sources because of coding or definitional issues.
  8. The Lancashire Area Team consists of:

- NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG

- NHS Blackpool CCG

- NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG

- NHS East Lancashire CCG

- NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG

- NHS Greater Preston CCG

- NHS Lancashire North CCG

- NHS West Lancashire CCG

9. The Lancashire PCTs making up the totals are:

- Blackburn with Darwen PCT

- Blackpool PCT

- Central Lancashire PCT

- East Lancashire Teaching PCT (previously East Lancashire PCT)

- North Lancashire Teaching PCT (previously North Lancashire PCT)

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