Question follow-through · 94085
Glaucoma: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the use of private high street eye care providers to treat conditions such as glaucoma to relieve pressure from the NHS
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the use of private high street eye care providers to treat conditions such as glaucoma to relieve pressure from the NHS
26 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
We recognise the vital contribution that high street eye care providers make in maintaining the nation’s eye health.Integrated care boards are responsible for assessing the health needs of their local population and for commissioning primary and secondary...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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