Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) Recorded Dementia Diagnoses, May 2016

Recorded dementia prevalence at 31st May 2016 is 0.759 per cent (1 person in 132).

When considered alongside monthly data collected in 2014/15, this indicates a progressive increase in recorded prevalence from March 2015 (0.738) to May 2016 (0.759).

After adjustments to remove spurious, 'non-GP' practices, shared practices and practices which decided not to participate in this extraction, the extract cohort available for collection was 7,406 practices.

Of the extract cohort, data for 7,188 practices were collected, representing 97.12 per cent coverage of cohort practices.