Early diagnosis campaign
What are we doing to increase diagnosis rates?
Alzheimer's Society is carrying out a range of activity to increase diagnosis rates
Government and decision makers
- We are supporting the Prime Minister's Challenge on dementia, which highlights diagnosis rates as an important area for change. Find out more about plans for improvements here.
- We have worked with the Department of Health and the devolved governments to produce their dementia strategies, with early diagnosis being prominent in each strategy.
- We are sharing results of the All Parliamentary Party Group on dementia's inquiry into diagnosis rates
Public awareness
- We are increasing public awareness of dementia through our Worried about your memory? campaign
- We have updated our Dementia Map which shows the number of people diagnosed with dementia in different parts of the UK
- We are running two pilot projects to increase diagnosis rates in Dorset and Warwickshire.
Health professionals
- We are working with health professionals, sharing training resources and signposting them to local services
- We send Worried about your memory? leaflets to over 9,000 GP practices in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- We have set up a General Practice Reference Group, to advise on Alzheimer's Society's work
In this section
- Early diagnosis of dementia
- You are here: What are we doing to increase diagnosis rates?
- Mapping memory clinic waiting times
- Early Diagnosis Pilot Projects
- Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia: Improving diagnosis rates
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