Question follow-through · 60892
Ophthalmic Services: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to (a) optician and (b) eye health provision in Ashfield constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to (a) optician and (b) eye health provision in Ashfield constituency.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
Integrated care boards are responsible for assessing the health needs of their population and for commissioning primary and secondary eye care services to meet them.Free National Health Service sight tests are widely available across the country, from any...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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