Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to introduce digital tools for the (a) referral, (b) diagnosis and (c) management of patients with eye conditions in the NHS; and if he will make a statement.

The Eye Care Electronic Referral and Image Sharing programme has been jointly commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement and NHSX to deliver electronic referral management and image sharing which will facilitate improved management of patients with eye conditions. Implementation is currently being trialled with a small number of ‘early adopters’.