| Heading: |
Dementia: Diagnosis |
| Question ID: |
1816738 |
| UIN: |
HL8864 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-25 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4130 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
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| Asking Member handle: |
MRitchieSD
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@MRitchieSD
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase access to advanced diagnostic tools, such as PET scans, blood tests and AI-supported retinal imaging, to enable earlier and more accurate dementia diagnosis. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-08 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
The Government’s Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programme has already invested £13 million into a range of biomarker innovation projects, which include a broad range of biomarker technologies, ranging from an artificial intelligence tool designed to ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |