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Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS special schools eye care service will have an oversight and evaluation programme in 2025-26 (a) monitoring coverage and uptake and (b) assessing whether it is delivering comparable

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
17 Mar 2025
Answer
20 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS special schools eye care service will have an oversight and evaluation programme in 2025-26 (a) monitoring coverage and uptake and (b) assessing whether it is delivering comparable

  2. 17 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    NHS England is in the process of publishing a final service specification for sight testing in special educational settings that will provide for comparable health and education outcomes to the proof of concept. A process is also being established for ong...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Health Services: Special Educational Needs

22 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children attending residential special schools have received an eyesight, hearing and dental check since April 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Miscarriage

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