In collaboration with clinicians across Greater Manchester, our business intelligence colleagues and members of our Dementia Carers Expert Reference Group we’ve developed a dashboard which shows dementia diagnoses across all ten boroughs.

The dashboard also reflects lived experience, quality of care and quality of life for people affected by dementia.

We’re aiming to reduce variation across Greater Manchester and to support all boroughs to be above the national dementia diagnosis rate target of 66.7%. The Greater Manchester dementia diagnosis rate average is currently 73% in 2023/ 2024. This is key to supporting people to live well at home for as long as possible and avoid care home or hospital admission.

Pre-pandemic the diagnosis rate was 76% 2018/2019).

The main driver for a dementia diagnosis is that it facilitates access to care and support that enables people to manage and live well with a complex condition. Driving up diagnostic rates without investing in post-diagnosis support results in people with dementia feeling unsupported after their diagnosis. Alzheimer’s Society

Presenting data in a simple format helps us all to measure our performance and see if programmes and initiatives across Greater Manchester are resulting in improvements to a range of metrics including eg diagnosis rates, referrals, care plans, assessments and medication reviews.

We hope that you will find the data dashboard helpful and would be grateful if you could share it with your colleagues.

The dementia dashboard is available for professionals and the public. The only difference is how people access it:

• Professionals links (login required): GM Dementia Dashboard Draft WIP: Views – Tableau Server (gmtableau.nhs.uk)

You can find out more about our quality of diagnosis project here: www.dementia-united.org.uk/quality-of-diagnosis/

If you have any questions about our dementia data dashboard please get in touch gmhscp.dementiaunited@nhs.net