Written Answers - Department of Health: Dementia (12 Feb 2016)

jimbo 111

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Written Answers - Department of Health: Dementia (12 Feb 2016)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2016-02-04.25961.h&s=dementia#g25961.r0
Jane Ellison: Information available in the Quality and Outcomes
Framework (QOF), published by the Health and Social Care Information, on
the number of people with *dementia* has been collected since 2006/07.
Information is collected at National Health Service organisation level,
and not constituency level.
Data on the number of people with
*dementia* in the East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust, the...
 

Otiruz

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Written Answers - Department of Health: Dementia (12 Feb 2016)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2016-02-04.25961.h&s=dementia#g25961.r0
Jane Ellison: Information available in the Quality and Outcomes
Framework (QOF), published by the Health and Social Care Information, on
the number of people with *dementia* has been collected since 2006/07.
Information is collected at National Health Service organisation level,
and not constituency level.
Data on the number of people with
*dementia* in the East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust, the...

Thank you Jimbo - it is possibly what we all thought, but seeing the numbers increasing at the rate they are is alarming. Is the NHS better at diagnosing dementia or is the disease more prevalent due to external factors I wonder?