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Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the October 2024 report entitled Key Interventions to Transform Eye Care & Eye Health; and what estimate hi

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
15 Dec 2025
Answer
30 Dec 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the October 2024 report entitled Key Interventions to Transform Eye Care & Eye Health; and what estimate hi

  2. 15 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 30 Dec 2025

    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 include the commissioning of enhanced eye care services from high street optic...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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