Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to increase the extent of community healthcare coverage to conditions, such as frontotemporal dementia, which to date they have considered highly socially complex, rather than medically complex, and not deemed a primary health care need.

Health and Wellbeing Boards in each upper-tier Local Authority are responsible for the development of Joint Strategic Needs Assessments to identify the current and future health and wellbeing needs of the local population and a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy that sets the strategic direction for local commissioning decisions. This may include assessment of the prevalence and impact of dementia, and appropriate actions for prevention, diagnosis and care.

The healthcare provided is inclusive of all types of dementia including frontotemporal dementia.