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Commons Chamber
Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) final year of their life were able to receive vital financial support six months earlier.This week is Dementia - Speech Link


Written Question
Obesity: Health Services
Friday 17th May 2024

Asked by: Lord McColl of Dulwich (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total cost of treating patients who are obese and overweight; and what are the associated costs of treating (1) type 2 diabetes, (2) cardiovascular disease, (3) cerebrovascular disease, (4) musculoskeletal diseases including joint replacers, (5) cancer, and (6) dementia.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The department has reviewed and uses cost estimates published by Frontier Economics in 2022.

A study by Frontier Economics estimated that in 2021 obesity related ill-health cost the National Health Service £6.5 billion annually. This estimate includes costs associated with the following obesity related diseases: colorectal cancer; oesophageal cancer; kidney cancer; ovarian cancer; pancreatic cancer; coronary heart disease; stroke; type 2 diabetes; hypertension; knee osteoarthritis; endometrial cancer, and breast cancer.

The disease costs associated with obesity are calculated from the total annual costs per case, as shown in the following table:

Disease

Cost per case per year (2021)

(1) Type 2 diabetes

£ 827.33

(2) Cardiovascular disease - Coronary heart disease (CHD)

£ 1,557.25

(2) Cardiovascular disease - Stroke

£ 247.55

(2) Risk of Cardiovascular disease - Hypertension

£ 453.91

(4) Musculoskeletal disease - Knee Osteoarthritis

£ 27,798.40

(5) Cancer - Colorectal cancer

£ 520.13

(5) Cancer - Oesophageal cancer

£ 545.06

(5) Cancer - Kidney cancer

£ 1,662.88

(5) Cancer - Ovarian cancer

£ 14,990.93

(5) Cancer - Pancreatic cancer

£ 7,447.27

(5) Cancer - Endometrial cancer

£ 520.13

(5) Cancer - Breast cancer

£ 545.06

The annual costs per case includes direct health-care costs including hospital care (both inpatient and outpatient), primary care, and medication, and they are not exclusively related to obesity associated cases. Indirect and social care costs are not included, which means the exclusion of these costs will probably underestimate total costs of disease events overall.


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

May. 16 2024

Source Page: Experience of claiming and receiving Carer’s Allowance
Document: Work and Pensions Select Committee inquiry (PDF)

Found: My mum had dementia and Alzheimer’s.


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

May. 16 2024

Source Page: Experience of claiming and receiving Carer’s Allowance
Document: (PDF)

Found: She cares for her partner who has progressive MS, but also cares for her elderly mum who has dementia


Scheduled Event - 16 May 2024, 12:30 p.m. - Add to calendar
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Commons - Westminster Hall debate - Westminster Hall
General Debate: Inequalities in dementia services
MP: Debbie Abrahams
Public Bill Committees
Football Governance Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Thu 16 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) Many people are rightly concerned about the link between football and dementia, for example.Ben Wright - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Inequalities in Dementia Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) Todmorden and a Dementia Friends ambassador. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) to £81,000 for severe dementia. - Speech Link
3: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) My mother-in-law died from dementia last year. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Mental Health and Long-term Conditions - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) Research Foundation —a type 1 diabetes charity—Kidney Care UK, Kidney Research, the MS Society, Scope, Dementia - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Women’s State Pension Age: Ombudsman Report - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Leigh lady Maggie Briley retired four years before she turned 60 to look after her parents with dementia - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 16 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) colleagues for coming to Parliament this week to promote and help us all understand the importance of dementia - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) In this Dementia Action Week, will a Minister come to the Dispatch Box and talk about plans to ensure - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) It is also important that we learn from the huge amount of research into dementia support, which not - Speech Link