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	date	19/02/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2018 to Question 120603, on Ophthalmic Services, if he will publish the number of admissions for people with (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma and (c) diabetic retinopathy in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	127877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>A count of finished admissions episodes<sup>1</sup> (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of: macular degeneration which includes age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy for the last five years is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Financial year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diagnosis</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Macular Degeneration</p></td><td><p>77,559</p></td><td><p>75,672</p></td><td><p>81,815</p></td><td><p>79,714</p></td><td><p>64,785</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glaucoma</p></td><td><p>20,489</p></td><td><p>21,827</p></td><td><p>22,300</p></td><td><p>22,889</p></td><td><p>24,184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diabetic Retinopathy</p></td><td><p>13,175</p></td><td><p>15,249</p></td><td><p>19,385</p></td><td><p>21,057</p></td><td><p>17,819</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/02/2018 13:25:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

843537

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2018 to Question 121244, on Ophthalmic Services, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of local commissioning arrangements for (a) glaucoma, (b) age related macular degeneration and (c) diabetic retinopathy.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	127878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment of the effectiveness of local commissioning arrangements for glaucoma, age related macular degeneration or diabetic retinopathy.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning secondary care ophthalmic services. CCGs are also able to commission eye care services in the community which go beyond the standard National Health Service sight test, where they judge them to be needed in their areas.</p><p> </p><p>CCGs are required, for all services they commission, to assess the health needs of their local population using the standard joint strategic needs assessment approach. CCGs are held locally to account to the population they serve through the health and wellbeing boards.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS England has a statutory duty to conduct an annual performance assessment of every CCG. This assessment is carried out against a standard high level framework:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/ccg-improvement-and-assessment-framework-2017-18" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/ccg-improvement-and-assessment-framework-2017-18</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/02/2018 13:37:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard