Questions
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To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in (a) the north-west, (b) Greater Manchester, and (c) the City of Manchester, in each of the last five years; and [HL2701]
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were diagnosed with dementia in (a) the north-west, (b) Greater Manchester, and (c) the City of Manchester, in each of the last five years. [HL2702]
Information on the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in the north-west, Greater Manchester and the city of Manchester, in each of the last five years, is not available in the format requested.
The national Quality and Outcomes Framework provides the number of people recorded on practice disease registers with a diagnosis of dementia, but does not distinguish between Alzheimer's disease and other possible forms of dementia. According to the publication Revisions to the General Medical Services Contract 2006/07, a copy of which has already been placed in the Library, Alzheimer's disease accounts for 50 to 75 per cent of cases of dementia, thus giving a crude indication of the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in the north-west, Greater Manchester and the city of Manchester.
The register count is only available for the last two releases of the framework, covering the periods 2006-07 and 2007-08. It also includes only those practices that have chosen to participate in the framework, as participation currently operates on a voluntary basis. Information is not available for all of the areas requested, as some are not health areas. Where this occurs, information has been supplied for the health areas that best fit those requested.
The available information is shown in the following table.
The number of people recorded on practice disease registers with a diagnosis of dementia in the north-west, Greater Manchester and the city of Manchester—2006-07 to 2007-08
2006-07 2007-08 North-west 31,746. 32,621 Greater Manchester Primary Care Trusts 10,943 11,126 Manchester Primary Care Trust 1,787 1,762
Source: National Quality of Outcomes Framework.
Notes:
1. Greater Manchester Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) include the following:
Ashton, Leigh & Wigan PCT
Bolton PCT
Bury PCT
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT
Manchester PCT
Oldham PCT
Salford PCT
Stockport PCT
Tameside & Glossop PCT
Trafford PCT
2. The national Quality and Outcomes Framework was introduced in April 2004, as part of the new general medical services contract. Participation by practices in the framework is voluntary, though participation rates are very high—with most personal medical services practices also taking part. The above information was derived from the quality management analysis system—a national system developed by NHS Connecting for Health.
3. The quality management analysis system captures the number of patients on the various disease registers for each practice. The number of patients on the clinical registers can be used to calculate measures of disease prevalence, expressing the number of patients on each register as a percentage of the number of patients on practices’ lists. The above figures are just the number of patients on the disease register for dementia.