Question follow-through · 53392
Glaucoma: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered introducing a national screening programme for glaucoma.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered introducing a national screening programme for glaucoma.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2025
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee does not recommend screening for glaucoma because it is not clear if the tests which are available are accurate enough to be used in a screening programme. Regular sight tests are important in detecting glaucoma, which ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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