Ophthalmic Services: Children
(asked on 8th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatient (a) paediatric ophthalmology, (b) ophthalmology, (c) medical ophthalmology, (d) optometry and (e) orthoptic follow-up appointments for children under 19 years of age were (i) cancelled and (ii) missed because the patient did not attend in 2014-15.
The information is shown in the following table.
Information on first and follow-up outpatient paediatric ophthalmology, ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology, optometry, and orthoptic appointments for patients under 19 years of age in 2014-15
| First appointments | Follow-up appointments | ||
Treatment specialty | Cancelled (by hospital or by patient) | Patient did not attend | Cancelled (by hospital or by patient) | Patient did not attend |
Paediatric ophthalmology | 18,322 | 18,573 | 50,184 | 46,044 |
Ophthalmology | 27,814 | 25,067 | 70,917 | 68,032 |
Medical ophthalmology | 164 | 1,525 | 401 | 3,923 |
Optometry | 987 | 544 | 897 | 484 |
Orthoptics | 13,322 | 12,652 | 57,002 | 41,410 |
Source:
Hospital episode statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre
Note:
These are not counts of people as the same person may have had more than one appointment within the same time period.