Ophthalmic Services: Children

(asked on 21st March 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Matthew Pennycook Portrait
Matthew Pennycook
(Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatient (a) ophthalmology, (b) medical ophthalmology, (c) optometry and (d) orthoptic appointments for children under 19 years of age took place in 2014-15.

Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 24th March 2016

The information is shown in the following table.

Information on outpatient ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology, optometry and orthoptic appointments for patients under 19 years of age in 2014-15.

Appointments

Treatment speciality

Attended first appointments

Attended appointments

All appointments

Ophthalmology

56,665

507,665

701,351

Medical Ophthalmology

9,219

26,101

32,119

Optometry

4,029

8,009

11,062

Orthoptics

57,108

269,882

394,663

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre

Notes:

The table contains the number of booked appointments for outpatients. They are recorded as one row per appointment that was made, whether it was attended or not.


A patient's treatment in outpatients can consist of a series of appointments; a distinction between the first in the series and subsequent appointments is commonly reported.

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