Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people there are diagnosed with dementia in (a) Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency, (b) Cumbria and (c) the North West.
Information is not available in the format requested. Data are available from the ‘Patients in England with a record of dementia diagnosis on their clinical record, October 2016’ dataset. The data are a snapshot as at 31 October 2016. Data are collected at general practitioner (GP) practice level, and therefore mapping to relatively small geographies (such as parliamentary constituencies) would not yield representative figures. The data can be aggregated to clinical commissioning group (CCG) level, and to a group of CCGs considered to comprise the North West. This can be found in the table below.
Table 1: Number of patients registered at GP practices, and the number of patients with a recorded dementia diagnosis, as at 31 October 2016 | ||
Geography | Patients with recorded dementia diagnosis | Patient list size |
NHS Cumbria CCG | 5,219 | 522,500 |
North West¹ | 62,138 | 7,516,621 |
Source: NHS Digital
Table 2: CCGs included in North West total | |
NHS Cumbria CCG | NHS Liverpool CCG |
NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG | NHS South Sefton CCG |
NHS Blackpool CCG | NHS Southport and Formby CCG |
NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG | NHS St Helens CCG |
NHS East Lancashire CCG | NHS Bolton CCG |
NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG | NHS Bury CCG |
NHS Greater Preston CCG | NHS Central Manchester CCG |
NHS Lancashire North CCG | NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG |
NHS West Lancashire CCG | NHS North Manchester CCG |
NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG | NHS Oldham CCG |
NHS South Cheshire CCG | NHS Salford CCG |
NHS Vale Royal CCG | NHS South Manchester CCG |
NHS Warrington CCG | NHS Stockport CCG |
NHS West Cheshire CCG | NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG |
NHS Wirral CCG | NHS Trafford CCG |
NHS Halton CCG | NHS Wigan Borough CCG |
NHS Knowsley CCG |
We also launched the Dementia Atlas in August 2016:
https://shapeatlas.net/dementia/
This interactive on-line resource aims to provide members of the public information on how their area performs against a range of areas along the Dementia “Well Pathway”. This greater transparency will enable people to know how health and care services are performing and highlight variation and areas where improvements are needed.