More than 250,000 dementia patients in England could miss new treatments

More than a third of Alzheimer’s patients could miss out on certain drugs because they have no recorded diagnosis, NHS figures show

More than 250,000 dementia patients could miss out on new treatments for the disease because they do not have a formal diagnosis, according to government figures.

NHS data published for the first time shows the prevalence of different types of dementia with which people in England have been diagnosed.