| Heading: |
Dementia: Diagnosis |
| Question ID: |
1791530 |
| UIN: |
43453 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4131 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jim Shannon
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| Asking Member handle: |
jimshannonmp
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@jimshannonmp
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve levels of (a) early and (b) accurate diagnosis for dementia; and if he will take steps to help increase the use of (i) blood tests and (ii) AI-driven |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-08 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
We are committed to recovering the dementia diagnosis rate to the national ambition of 66.7%, which in England, at the end of February 2025, was 65.4%. To support the implementation of the Dementia Care Pathway, we have developed a memory service dashboar... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |