Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of ophthalmology appointments were cancelled or delayed by hospitals in (a) NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group and (b) NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group in 2015-16.

Data is not available in the format requested.

Information showing the counts and percentages of outpatient appointments with the treatment specialty ‘ophthalmology’, broken down by attendance type, for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) of treatment, NHS Blackpool CCG and NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG, in 2015-16, is shown in the following table.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

1. Activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
2. Outpatient appointments: 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. ‘Counts’ are not counts of people as the same person may have had more than one appointment within the same period.
3. Treatment Specialty: The code used to identify ophthalmology treatment specialty is 130 – Ophthalmology.
4. Attendance type: Identifies if the patient attended an appointment, if it was first or subsequent attendance, if the appointment was cancelled or the patient did not attend.
5. CCG of treatment: This indicates the CCG area within which the organisation providing treatment was located. The providers with sites mapped to each CCG of treatment are:

NHS Blackpool CCG:

- Whitegate Health Centre

- Inhealth Diagnostics (Glenroyd Medical Centre)

- Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

- Specsavers Hearcare – Lancashire – Blackpool

- Glenroyd Medical Practice

- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Virgin Care Blackpool LLP

- Spire Fylde Coast Hospital

NHS Fylde and Wear CCG:

- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Specsavers Hearcare – Lancashire - Kirkham

- Specsavers Hearcare – Lancashire - Fleetwood

- Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

- Specsavers Hearcare – Lancashire – St Anne’s

- Specsavers Hearcare – Lancashire - Cleveleys

6. Please note that CCG of treatment is based on the site of treatment, and some hospital providers may have sites in both of the CCGs.
7. The reporting period for 2015-16 is 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016.