Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed as having glaucoma in each of the last five years.
A complete set of data is not available to accurately reflect the number of people diagnosed with glaucoma. The recording of a primary diagnosis is not mandatory within the hospital episode statistics outpatient commissioning data set and does not, therefore, provide a reliable estimate of those who have been diagnosed with glaucoma.