An interactive online map is being published by the Government to "tackle poor performances" in dementia care and give sufferers a clear idea which parts of England are guilty of "poor performance", the health secretary has announced.
The Government will publish an interactive online map detailing the state of dementia care in different parts of the country, the health secretary has announced.
Jeremy Hunt hopes the map will improve transparency as dementia diagnoses rise, with the World Health Organisation estimating the number of people worldwide living with dementia could more than treble to 115.4 million by 2050.
The Tory health secretary said allowing patients to see which parts of England were guilty of "poor performance" would help tackle what he calls a health and care "time bomb".
Fewer than half of people living with dementia have a diagnosis, official figures show, and the rate has improved only slightly - from 46% to 48% - over the last two years.
Even that increase masks wide discrepancies across different areas - with the best performing almost twice as well as the worst - 75% versus 39%.
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