Dementia: Lincolnshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for a dementia assessment in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The constituency in question is split across two Older People Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT), Stamford and Spalding CMHTs. Whilst this does not map exactly with the constituency area, the average wait for the first appointment across the two CMHTs is 11.62 weeks.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) has received funding to introduce a specific pathway for memory assessments, which will help tackle local waiting times for assessment and diagnosis of conditions such as dementia. Work is underway to finalise the model of care and to launch it towards the end of the financial year.
There has been continued LPFT recruitment funding for dedicated Memory Assessment Practitioners with increased assessment and diagnostic output, as well as recruitment for additional, dedicated Memory Assessment Service Consultants to increase diagnostic capacity.
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