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1692756

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date	29/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Ophthalmic Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 19 June 2023 to Question 188964 on Ophthalmic Services, what recent progress her Department has made on developing standard service specifications for enhanced eye care services.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	16321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>The new standard of clinical specification for community eye care services, both minor and urgent, was published by the Local Optical Committee Support Unit on 23 February 2024. The specification will help local commissioners in getting the best outcomes, if they choose to commission these services as part of their local eye care provision. The specification is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://locsu.co.uk/what-we-do/pathways/community-minor-and-urgent-eye-care-clinical-specification/" target="_blank">https://locsu.co.uk/what-we-do/pathways/community-minor-and-urgent-eye-care-clinical-specification/</a></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/03/2024 14:25:06 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1692757

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Ophthalmic Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to ensure that appropriately-qualified optometrists are able to access NHS prescription forms to help reduce the onward referral of patients with eye health conditions.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	16322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>When commissioning community enhanced eye care services, we would expect integrated care boards to consider the need to give appropriately qualified optometrists access to National Health Service prescription forms.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/03/2024 14:28:59 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1680931

registered interest
date	09/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Ophthalmic Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to (a) reduce waiting times and (b) improve patient outcomes in NHS opthamology services.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	8731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>We are taking action to recover elective services, including ophthalmology, by working towards the targets set out in the Elective Recovery Plan and providing the National Health Service with record levels of staffing and funding. We plan to transform the way the NHS provides elective care by increasing activity, including through dedicated and protected surgical hubs, focusing on providing high volume low complexity surgery as recommended by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. These hubs will initially focus on driving improvement in six high volume specialties, one of these being ophthalmology.</p><p>Most recent published data from NHS England shows the average wait time for referral to treatment for ophthalmology was 11.7 weeks, below the national average of 14.4 weeks.</p><p>NHS England is currently considering how eye care services should be commissioned to ensure future sustainability. This includes looking at how more patients can be triaged and managed in the community, freeing up capacity for those that need face to face specialist care.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 17/01/2024 14:46:29 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield