Dementia Assessment and Referral data collection – July 2013
This is the second publication of the Dementia Assessment and Referral data collection in England by NHS England for the period covering July 2013 in England. It was released on 2nd October 2013 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
Key points
The key results for data collected on the number and proportion of patients aged 75 and over admitted as an emergency for more than 72 hours who have been identified as potentially having dementia, who are appropriately assessed and, where appropriate, were referred on to specialist services are as follows:
- 78% of admitted patients were initially assessed for potential dementia in July 2013, an increase of 7 percentage points from 71% in Q1 2013/14.
- 89% of admitted patients potentially having dementia were appropriately assessed in July 2013, an increase of 3 percentage points from 86% in Q1 2013/14.
- 89% of appropriately assessed patients were referred on to specialist services in July 2013, an increase of 2 percentage points from 87% in Q1 2013/14.
- The percentages of trusts in July 2013 achieving 90% or over of their emergency admissions for these measures were: 60% of the trusts carried out initial assessments for cases of dementia, an increase of 4 percentage points from 56% in Q1 2013/14; 64% carried out further diagnoses, a decrease of 5 percentage points from 69% in Q1 2013/14; 70% referred cases on to specialist services, a decrease of 5 percentage points from 75% in Q1 2013/14.
Download
Please note: An incomplete list pre-release access list was published by mistake and has now been replaced by the complete list.
Dementia-Pre-Release-Access-List-July-2013 (PDF, 21KB)
Dementia-Press-Notice-July-2013 (PDF, 103KB)
Dementia-Data-Collection-July-2013 (XLS, 75KB)
Dementia-Data-Collection-July-2013 (CSV, 17KB)
For more information see the Dementia, Assessment and Referral page.
Contact Us
You can obtain further details about the statistics published in this section or send in your comments by emailing the team at the address below.
Email: england.dementia@nhs.net