Question follow-through · 84714

Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds data on the number of pre-visit notifications completed by optometrists in the last 12 months.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
27 Oct 2025
Answer
13 Nov 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds data on the number of pre-visit notifications completed by optometrists in the last 12 months.

  2. 27 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 13 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Domiciliary eye care providers are required to give advance notification to integrated care boards (ICB) of their intention to provide a National Health Service domiciliary sight test to an eligible patient. This is referred to as a pre-visit notification...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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