The latest Join Dementia Research volunteer registration data are now available.

July/August 2019 highlights:

  • Total number of volunteers to the end of August is 43,903 (5,544 with a dementia diagnosis, which is 1.1% of total number of people with a diagnosis – objective is 25% by December 2020)
  • NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG remain as the CCG with the most people with dementia registered on JDR (126 volunteers), closely followed by NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG (124 volunteers)
  • NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG also remain as the top CCG for % population with dementia registered on dementia, with 5.25% of its population with dementia registered on JDR
  • South West Peninsula is the top NIHR region by % with 2.22% of its population with dementia registered on JDR
  • Referrals from memory clinics continue to generate the largest number of registrations of people living with dementia
  • GPs surgeries were a good source of both registrants with dementia and those without, accounting for 22% of all registrants in August
  • August continued the trend seen in July with the internet search/social media as a combined top recruitment source particularly for people without dementia, however this doesn’t translate to people with dementia with no recruitment coming via social media

You can access the complete dataset using the following link: http://nhs.joindementiaresearch.nihr.ac.uk/data-and-statistics/