Glaucoma

(asked on 27th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what new procedures and operations for treating glaucoma are planned to become available on the NHS; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 3rd April 2018

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recently published interventional procedures guidance on a number of new procedures and is currently developing guidance on another, all for use in the treatment of glaucoma.

NICE interventional procedures guidance makes recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new operational procedures are sufficiently safe and efficacious for routine use in clinical practice, but does not provide guidance on whether such procedures represent a clinically and cost effective use of NHS resources.

It is for commissioners locally to decide based on the available evidence whether to fund a procedure recommended in NICE interventional procedures guidance or any other procedure.

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