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Campaigns

We’re campaigning for better care so that everyone affected by dementia gets the specialist support they deserve.

    Our work in Parliament

    We work with Parliament to raise awareness among decision-makers to ensure that people have their voices heard.

    On May 5, 2022, our Director of Clinical Services, Paul Edwards attended the roundtable with the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee Workforce Expert Panel to conduct an evaluation of the Government’s commitments in the area of health and social care workforce in England.

    Read the full report

    2023 APPG on Dementia 

    The APPG on Dementia launched an inquiry into barriers people have faced whilst getting a dementia diagnosis, particularly in rural and deprived parts of England.

    2022 APPG on Dementia

    In February 2022, at the oral evidence session for the APPG, Paul Edwards, highlighted the role a social care workforce can play in enabling people with dementia to live better lives.

    Paul also highlighted the important role of the dementia specialist Admiral Nurse and the quote below was included in the APPG’s report:

    Their key focus really is on maintaining family relationships and keeping families together by providing support to the whole family, because we recognise that it’s not just the person that lives with dementia, it’s very often the family that lives with it too. And all of those changes and adaptations and all of the emotional difficulties, practical difficulties and clinical difficulties, Admiral Nurses are there to try and support families through those times.

    The inquiry report was launched on November 2, 2022.

    Read the full report

    2020 APPG on Coronavirus

    We submitted written evidence about the impact of Covid-19 on families affected by dementia and health and social care nursing professionals. Paul Edwards, Director of Clinical Services at Dementia UK was invited to the APPG’s Oral Evidence Session to highlight the issues and our recommendations.

    Download the interim report  which contains findings based on written and oral evidence.

    On 15th November 2022 we joined 64 other charities to sign an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP to urge the government to provide unpaid carers the financial support they need to cope with the cost of living crisis.

    We are also members of the Care and Support Alliance and National Voices. Find out more about our work in partnership with these organisations.