Ophthalmic Services

(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department's response to the Call to Action on improving eye health and the provision of NHS eye health services will be published.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 14th September 2015

NHS England has not formally published the Call to Action. NHS England has advised that key themes arising from the Call to Action responses included:

- a desire to see a greater delivery of care in the community;

- a call for greater patient and user involvement in service redesign, particularly with more engagement of third sector organisations; and

- recognition that care pathways for eye health disorders needed to better reflect opportunities for health promotion, more consistent adoption of good practice guidelines in terms of management, and greater awareness of reablement /rehabilitation for service users with visual impairment and sight loss.

There was also feedback which highlighted the need for a review of information technology systems across England to better support integration of the eye sector in both community and hospital services.

We understand NHS England has discussed the findings with commissioners and stakeholders and that work is underway to develop local and national responses to the findings as part of NHS England business plan for 2015/16.

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