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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/748497", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/748497/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government\u2019s policy is that National Health Service care is free at the point of delivery regardless of who provides it.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on whether patients who receive NHS care from (a) Virgin Care and (b) other private providers of NHS Care should pay for any element of the treatment at point of delivery.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/748522/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>It is for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to take decisions on whether to commission eye care services over and above the National Health Service sight test, where they judge them to be needed in their areas.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>NHS England has been working with the Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning (CCEHC) to support the development of a range of guidelines for CCGs on evidence based clinical pathways for eye health.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>As part of this work the CCEHC have published both a Primary Eye Care and Community Ophthalmology framework. Both seek to encourage greater commissioning outside of the hospital setting in order to reduce pressure within secondary care, improve services for patients and offer efficiencies for the NHS.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to promote to health commissioners the role that community optical practices can play in delivering eyecare services.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4131", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jim Shannon"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/748534", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/748534/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The data is not yet available. We have made good progress to stop people in mental health crisis being taken to police cells with the 2016-17 data showing there has been almost 80% reduction in cases since 2011-12.<\/p>"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/748535", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/748535/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The information is not available in the format requested.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4067", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve Brine"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/748536", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
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