Dementia Surveillance Factsheet (first published in January 2024)

These interactive factsheets show the disparities that exist across England in relation to the diagnosis of people with dementia and the care they receive.

Indicators included in the factsheet are:

• estimated dementia diagnosis rate
• prevalence of people with a formal diagnosis of dementia
• referrals to memory assessment services by primary care practices
• levels of antipsychotic drug prescribing for people with dementia

The national (England) factsheet is aimed at informing national and local policy development with data illustrated for England and 7 NHS regional geographies. The factsheet now includes integrated care board (ICB) comparator charts for each indicator.

The integrated care boards (ICB) factsheets are aimed at local commissioners to help in planning services around the needs of people with dementia. There are interactive factsheets for each of the 42 ICBs in England, with data illustrated at both ICB levels and sub ICB levels where they exist.

See the CSV files of the data and metadata used in this publication.  

Please note that:

1. Data on Antipsychotic prescribing.  In November 2023 a new release for SNOMED CT codes was published for England relating to antipsychotic medication. A transition period of up to 8 weeks exists while clinical coders move to the updated codes set for recording related activity. In data published for November 2023 by NHS England, it is evident that the pulished data are lower than the true count. This is impacting on the national rate and the rate for the majority of sub ICB, ICB and regional locations. The transition is expected to be complete for data relating to February 2024. The situation is being monitored by colleagues in NHS England who publish the Primary Care Dementia Data publication. 
2. Boundary changes to areas covered by ICBs. In April 2023 geographic boundary changes affected 2 ICB areas in England. As a result, new geographic codes have been published for Surrey Heartlands ICB and Sussex ICB. The factsheets for these 2 ICBs have been published through the Fingertips platform labelled using the old geographic code. The organisation codes for the ICBs did not change.