Question follow-through · 98036
Glaucoma: Community Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to improve community-based glaucoma care services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to improve community-based glaucoma care services.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
Integrated care boards are responsible for assessing the health needs of their local population and for commissioning primary and secondary eye care services to meet them. This can include the commissioning of enhanced eye care services from high street o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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