Alzheimer's Disease U.K. diagnosed by region in each of the last five years [179852]

Alzheimer's Disease U.K. diagnosed by region in each of the last five years. [179852]

 

Alzheimer's Disease

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in each region of the UK were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, by region in each of the last five years. [179852]

Norman Lamb: The number of people recorded on practice disease registers is available in the quality and outcomes framework (QOF), published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). The number of diagnoses are not available but the number of people on the dementia register are available. This is a measure of prevalence rather than incidence.

QOF does not have any information specifically on Alzheimer’s disease and the HSCIC only has information for England.

The numbers on the dementia register in the last five years are given in the following tables. Information for 2008-09 to 2011-12 (table 1) is presented at strategic health authority level and for 2012-13, under the new NHS structure, at commissioning region level (table 2).

QOF registers are constructed to underpin indicators on quality of care, and they do not necessarily equate to prevalence as may be defined by epidemiologists. For example, prevalence figures based on QOF registers may differ from prevalence figures from other sources because of coding or definitional issues. It is difficult to interpret year-on-year changes in the size of QOF registers, for example, a gradual rise in patients on a QOF register could be due partly to epidemiological factors (such as an ageing population) or due partly to increased case finding.

Table 1: Number of patients on the QOF dementia register by strategic health authority in England, 2008-09 to 2011-12
	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12
England	232,430	249,463	266,697	293,738
North East	13,198	14,034	15,014	16,568
North West	34,057	35,952	38,230	42,158
Yorkshire and the Humber	24,844	26,755	28,845	31,908
East Midlands	20,089	21,625	23,423	25,953
West Midlands	23,866	25,622	27,735	30,386
East of England	25,315	27,591	29,578	31,975
London	24,859	26,745	28,255	31,160
South East Coast	21,442	23,037	24,284	26,419
South Central	18,840	20,044	21,085	23,114

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South West

25,920

28,058

30,248

34,097

Table 2: Number of patients on the QOF dementia register by commissioning region in England in 2012-13
	2012-13
England	318,669
North of England	98,768
Midlands and East of England	96,274
London	33,333
South of England	90,294
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre.

 

 

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