Dementia: Health Services
(asked on 26th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve dementia care in the NHS in the next 10 years.
This question was answered on 10th November 2022
In 2021/22, £17 million was made available to clinical commissioning groups to address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. Work to improve dementia diagnosis rates will continue in 2022/23.
We will also double funding for dementia research to £160 million a year by 2024/25. This will include research into its causes, prevention, treatment and care.