Question follow-through · 50581
Ophthalmic Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of NHS Ophthalmology departments that do not have enough consultants to provide a full service.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of NHS Ophthalmology departments that do not have enough consultants to provide a full service.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold information on shortages of ophthalmology consultants. Appropriate levels of staffing will be decided by local system workforce planning.NHS England publishes quarterly National Health Service hospital trust vacancy and job ad...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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