Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 82089

Ophthalmic Services

Tabled: 14 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Shockat Adam

IndependentLeicester South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the use of the optometry workforce in (a) early intervention and (b) prevention of avoidable sight loss.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for assessing the health needs of their population and for commissioning primary and secondary eye care services to meet them.ICBs already commission National Health Service sight testing services through high...

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