Dementia: Diagnosis
(asked on 15th July 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 estimate he has made of the number of people awaiting a dementia diagnosis.
This question was answered on 25th July 2022
The information is not held in the format requested.
However, as of June 2022, NHS Digital estimates there are 698,345 people over 65 years old living with dementia, of which 447,415 have a recorded dementia diagnosis.