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Dementia is now a significant illness throughout the world and has a profound impact on the individual, on families and society more generally.With an increasing world population and increasing life expectancy throughout most of the world, the prevalence of dementia is also likely to rise.In the UK there has been a steady increase in the number of memory services in recent years.However, these have developed in an ad hoc way and there have been wide variations in terms of service size, the clinical focus, funding arrangements, types of rating scales used and the types and numbers of investigations undertaken.In the UK we have recently set up the Memory Services National Accreditation Programme (MSNAP) at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in association with a number of other UK organisations such as the Royal College of Nursing.The aim of MSNAP is to set standards for memory services in the UK, to review services and suggest changes with a view to improving the quality of services.The MSNAP would be reviewed in detail and comparisons between different services in the UK would be discussed.