• ‘It’s frustrating for everybody’: the impact of dementia diagnosis delays

    ‘It’s frustrating for everybody’: the impact of dementia diagnosis delays
    People at a dementia cafe session in Swindon describe long waits for diagnosis, and knock-on delays in prescribing treatmentInequality leaving 115,000 dementia cases ‘undiagnosed’ in EnglandSwindon has one of the worst dementia diagnosis rates in England. NHS England figures show that less than half of patients (49.7%) with the condition have a formal diagnosis. It means that more than 760 people are not diagnosed who would have been if Swindon had the same diagnosis rates as the ave

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