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<p>The Department welcomed the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) report, ‘See the
Light: Improving capacity in NHS eye care in England’. We have taken the concerns
of the profession and the wider sight loss sector about timeliness of patient access
to eye care services very seriously.</p><p>In response to concerns about timely access
to care, two key initiatives the Elective Care Transformation Programme led by NHS
England and NHS Improvement’s Getting It Right First Time programme have considered,
as part of their respective programmes, how we can improve patient outcomes in secondary
care eye care services and ensure that patients do not suffer unnecessary delays in
follow-up care.</p><p>The Department is currently working with stakeholders to finalise
the response to the report, which will be sent to the APPG at the earliest opportunity
and following this, published on the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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