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 first 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.