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Dementia: Drugs

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 13695, tabled on 7 June 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of using its experience of the Vaccines Taskforce during the covid-19 outbreak to establish a dementia medicines taskforce to improve Alzheimer-related outcomes.

Answered on

15 June 2022

Officials have met with Alzheimer’s Research UK to discuss this proposal and considered routes for accelerating access to medicines to improve outcomes for Alzheimer’s patients with NHS England and NHS Improvement, including the experiences of the Vaccines Taskforce.

We will set out plans for dementia in England for the next 10 years later this year, including on diagnosis, risk reduction and prevention and research. The strategy will include ambitions for research to develop new disease-modifying treatments. We will continue to engage with stakeholders, including Alzheimer’s Research UK, throughout the development of the strategy.