Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 84716

Ophthalmic Services

Tabled: 23 October 2025
Answered: 13 November 2025

Question

Dr Luke Evans

ConservativeHinckley and Bosworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of pre-visit notifications, in the context of mandatory electronic submissions of general opthalmic services claims.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Domiciliary eye care providers are required to give advance notification to integrated care boards (ICB) of their intention to provide a National Health Service domiciliary sight test to an eligible patient. This is referred to as a pre-visit notification...

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