Special Educational Needs: Ophthalmic Services
(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the establishment of the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 14th February 2022
A Proof-of-Concept programme was launched by NHS England and NHS Improvement in 2021 to provide sight tests and the dispensing of glasses on school premises to children and young people with learning disabilities and autism attending residential special schools. The programme will run during the 2022/2023 financial year and NHS England and NHS Improvement hopes to undertake a service evaluation between April and July 2023.