dementia : 1 Written Answer _1 Commons debate

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dementia : 1 Commons debate
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Royal Assent: Mental Health and Well-being of Londoners (12 Feb 2015)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2015-02-12a.1023.0&s=dementia#g1043.2
Jane Ellison: ...100% during the period the audit was undertaken, which
was September to November 2014. London's CCGs are committed to
delivering the IAPT access and recovery targets for 2014-15.
Additionally, the hon. Lady's CCG, City and Hackney, is using a range of
alliances-I was interested to hear about this-across CAMHS,
psychological therapies, *dementia*, primary care and...

dementia : 1 Written Answer
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Written Answers - Department of Health: Strokes (12 Feb 2015)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2015-02-09.223831.h&s=dementia#g223831.r0
George Freeman: The report published by the Stroke Association compares
research spend in four disease areas (stroke, cancer, coronary heart
disease and *dementia*) by governmental organisations and charities.
The usual practice of the two main public funders of health research -
the Department's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the
Medical Research Council (MRC) - is not to...

 

[Karjo]

I thought a lot more was being put in to dementia research but it seems not. As terrible as cancer is dementia I think is so much more devastating, and does not only affect the elderly. Why so little into dementia when it destroys so many lives and has the potential to wreak havoc on so many people in this country? Why are they saying there is rhis huge increase in spending on research when in comparison there is not?