• When a specialist memory assessment has been undertaken and a diagnosis has been made, ensure that your practice receives a clear diagnosis and records this on its dementia register.
• When estimating General Practice prevalence rates consider approximately how many people you would expect to be on your Practice Dementia Register. This may be subject to a number of local variables, including the demographic profile of your practice population, and the presence care homes.
• Engaging with your Practice team to estimate what your local prevalence rate might be will provide an opportunity to consider those variables affecting people presenting with memory problems, and people receiving an early diagnosis.

View the Dementia Practice Prevalence Calculator

Note: the Dementia Practice Prevalence Calculator will not predict the prevalence rate because numbers are too small to be statistically significant at Practice level. The Calculator has been provided so that Practices may start with a figure, and consider and agree:

• the factors to consider as variables that would impact the local prevalence rate;
• a rationale for arriving at the same, or a different prevalence rate;
• trajectories for improving the actual diagnosis rate, year-on-year, and how to achieve this.