Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 42037

Ophthalmic Services: Children

Tabled: 27 March 2025
Answered: 3 April 2025

Question

Daniel Francis

LabourBexleyheath and Crayford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the difference between the (a) fee that will be paid to deliver the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service and (b) cost

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
The fee that has been put in place to underpin the service is aligned to other fees paid for domiciliary sight testing services. NHS England has committed to investing up to £12.7 million annually on the provision of sight tests and the associated optical...

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