Question follow-through · 82093
Ophthalmic Services: Information Sharing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide NHS email accounts to (a) optometrists and (b) other NHS contractors to support more (i) efficient and (ii) secure communication across services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide NHS email accounts to (a) optometrists and (b) other NHS contractors to support more (i) efficient and (ii) secure communication across services.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2025
Answer published
NHS.net, formally NHSmail, provides licences for optometry practices in England, specifically for General Ophthalmic Services contractors with 10 or fewer sites. Eligible practices can receive one shared mailbox and up to three individual NHS.net accounts...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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