Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of timely dementia diagnosis on patient outcomes; and if he will make a statement.

The National Institute for Care Excellence’s (NICE) quality standard on dementia states that timely diagnosis allows patients to access support and treatment at an earlier stage and families and carers can benefit from advanced care planning. The quality standard is available at the following link:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs184/chapter/Quality-statement-2-Diagnosis

We will set out plans for dementia in England for the next 10 years later this year,, which will include a focus on dementia diagnosis.