Health written question – answered at on 24 May 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) what estimate she has made of how many people have Alzheimer's disease, broken down by (a) strategic health authority and (b) primary care trust; what forecast she has made of the number of new cases each year and incidence over the next (i) 20 and (ii) 30 years; and what estimate she has made of the incidence in other EU countries;
(2) what assessment she has made of the total cost of (a) treating and (b) caring for people with Alzheimer's disease; and what forecast she has made of the future trends of this figure.
No assessment has been undertaken by the Department about the total cost and future trends of treating and caring for people with Alzheimer's disease.
Dementia currently affects over 750,000 people in the United Kingdom (UK). It is estimated that by 2026 there will be 840,000 people with dementia in the UK, rising to 1.2 million by 2050. The Department has not made such an estimate of incidence of Alzheimer's disease in other European Union countries
Information on the number of people with Alzheimer's disease, broken down by strategic health authority (SHA) and primary care trust (PCT) is not available but information on the number of people in England admitted to hospital where Alzheimer's disease was a diagnosis in SHA and PCTs is shown in the table.
Count of patients admitted to hospital with Alzheimer's disease as a diagnosis by SHA and PCT—Data for all national health service hospitals in England, data years 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05 | ||||
Data year | ||||
2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | Total | |
SHA total patients | 19,442 | 21,575 | 24,253 | 65,270 |
PCT total patients | 19,442 | 21,575 | 24,253 | 65,270 |
Notes: ICD—10 codes used: G30 Alzheimer's disease (as provided by Data Standards, Connecting for Health) FCEs—finished consultant episodes All diagnoses count of episodes: These figures represent a count of all FCEs where the diagnosis was mentioned in any of the 14 (seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in a HES record. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care |
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