Question follow-through · 96948

Ophthalmic Services: Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to expand the use of community optometry services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 3 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 8 Dec 2025
Answer: 3 Feb 2026 · 62 calendar days after tabling

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3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to expand the use of community optometry services.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2026
Answer published
Integrated care boards are responsible for assessing the health needs of their local population and commissioning primary and secondary eye care services to meet them.This can already include the commissioning of enhanced eye care services from high stree...

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