Veterans: Visual Impairment

(asked on 19th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2014 to Question 210999, if he will publish the timetable for his further consideration of the collection of data on people registering as visually impaired who are veterans.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 26th November 2014

The Department has received initial advice from NHS England and Blind Veterans UK on the collection of this data.

A formal meeting with NHS England, Blind Veterans UK, the Health and Social Care Information Centre and Primary Health Care Optometry leads will be arranged in the next few weeks to consider the options for collecting data on veterans registering as visually impaired and plan the best mechanism for doing so.

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