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• Alzheimer’s Research UK welcomes government’s recommitment to dementia mission

  The UK Government has made a recommitment to delivering its previously announced ‘national dementia mission’ in honour of Dame Barbara Windsor to help speed up dementia research and contribute to its ... The national mission, announced in August this

• Alzheimer’s Research UK announces ‘record’ financial performance for 2021/22

  model to speed up the development and roll-out of new dementia treatments. ... Subsequently, a new ‘national dementia mission’ was announced by the UK government in August, which included a recommitment to double dementia research funding to £160m a

• UK government to launch national mission to tackle dementia

  The UK Government will launch a new ‘national dementia mission’ in honour of Dame Barbara Windsor which includes a recommitment to doubling dementia research funding to £160m a year by 2024, ... An additional £95m in ring-fenced funding will

• Dementia map reveals extent of under-diagnosis

  Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the UK needs a "national mission" to tackle dementia, which already affects around 670, 000 people in the country and is predicted to rise to more ... Dementia is where cancer was in the 1960s, something which people are