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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Anna Bawden Social affairs correspondent

More than 250,000 dementia patients in England could miss new treatments

A nurse looks after an elderly patient at home
The NHS primary care dementia figures estimate that there are about 708,000 people over 65 with dementia in England, but only about 450,000 have a recorded diagnosis. Photograph: Martin Prescott/Getty Images/iStockphoto

More than 250,000 dementia patients could miss out on new treatments for the disease because they do not have a formal diagnosis, according to government figures.

NHS data published for the first time shows the prevalence of different types of dementia with which people in England have been diagnosed.

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