Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 27 November 2012.
Hazel Blears
Labour, Salford and Eccles
11:30,
27 November 2012
There are 800,000 people in this country who are living with the effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia. For some of those people, challenging behaviour is a serious issue. Will the Minister ensure that every clinical commissioning group has a lead for dementia in the mental health field so that that can be taken seriously in every community in the country?
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