Accepting the greater concern is about data and privacy,
and while not entirely answering the question, see:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s007870200012
Dementia does occur in children, prevalence 5.6/100,000 in Australia,
with 16% notified (therefore diagnosed) before the age of 2.
BW,
J
At 14:35 28/05/2015, you wrote:
>Have a look at the age groups in this
>http://tinyurl.com/p5g96o9
>Requirement: Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) Subset Extract for
>Dementia Prevalence for financial year 2015-16
>Customer Requirement Reference Number: NIC-329437-L9M3C
>They start at 0-29 then go up in 5 year cohorts: has QOF changed? So a
>serious question: how *do* you diagnose dementia in a toddler?
>
>Keep an eye on this sort of thing - the GPES IAG is being terminated on June
>30th before the plans for 'replacement' are finalised..
>(and this Customer Requirement was shown to the IAG for comment: the
>comments did not materially alter the customer requirement)
>
>But at any rate, you have to sign up to this *and* it is aggregated data.
>
>The Enhanced FMG dataset developed by SCCI (which will be in charge of
>approving GPES extracts from general practice from 1st July) contains fully
>identifiable data without consent - and I haven't been able to locate the
>legal basis for this or whether 'fair processing' is involved.
>http://www.hscic.gov.uk/fgm
>Let us know if you find it.
>
>Shape of things to come?
>
>Mary Hawking
>Retired from NHS on 31.3.13 because of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
>"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
>can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4
>blog http://maryhawking.wordpress.com/ And Fred!
>http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/can-integrated-care-satisf
>y-all-of-freds-needs-including-patient-empowerment/
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