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

Recorded dementia prevalence at 31 October 2016 is 0.773 per cent (1 person in 129).

When considered alongside monthly data collected in 2015/16, this indicates a progressive increase in recorded prevalence from March 2016 (0.759) to October 2016 (0.773).

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 7,457 practices.

Of the extract cohort, data for 7,358 practices were collected, representing 98.7 per cent coverage of cohort practices.