Alzheimer's Disease

HC Deb 08 July 1988 vol 136 cc776-7W

Mr. John Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in theOfficial Report, for each regional health authority in England, the number of reported cases of Alzheimer's disease in each of the last six years.

Mrs. Currie

The only information available centrally relates to admissions to National Health Service mental illness hospitals and units in England with a main diagnosis of presenile or senile dementia (ICD 290.0, 290.2, 290.3) and is shown in the table. Dementia in alzheimer's disease is included under these diagnoses.

(Data on arteriosclerotic dementia and dementia from `other' and 'unspecified' causes (ICD 290.4, 290.8 and 290.9) are recorded separately).

All admissions to mental illness hospitals and units with a diagnosis of presenile or senile dementia1, by Regional Health Authority of treatment, 1981–86
Regional Health Authority	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
England	14,855	15,908	16,707	19,183	19,931	19,727
Northern	1,163	1,050	1,215	1,499	1,496	1,270
Yorkshire	1,086	1,230	1,557	1,587	1,732	1,744
Trent	1,190	1,225	1,397	1,721	1,935	2,045
East Anglian	834	1,000	1,100	1,409	1,299	1,237
N W Thames	799	773	989	1,001	1,088	1,118
N E Thames	1,039	1,173	1,205	1,395	1,279	1,237
S W Thames	899	1,172	959	920	1,085	917
S E Thames	1,084	893	979	1,061	1,124	1,217
Wessex	1,580	1,563	1,638	1,836	1,646	1,551
Oxford	1,022	1,208	982	1,286	1,640	1,759
South Western	1,106	1,477	1,370	1,382	1,491	1,342
West Midlands	1,011	947	1,052	1,154	1,317	1,385
Mersey	935	970	889	1,280	1,352	1,342
North Western	1,085	1,214	1,349	1,628	1,431	1,542
Special Health Authority	22	13	26	23	18	21
1ICD codes 290.0, 290.1, 290.2, 290.3.

Source: Mental Health Enquiry.