Ophthalmic Services: Children
(asked on 6th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total NHS expenditure on outpatient paediatric ophthalmology services in 2021/22.
The table below sets out the cost to the National Health Service in England in financial year 2021/22 of providing General Ophthalmic Services. These figures are derived from draft accounts and will not be finalised until they are published on the NHS England website.
| £ million | Proportion |
NHS Sight Tests | 307 | 56.6% |
NHS Optical Vouchers incl. Repairs & Replacements | 222 | 41% |
Other General Ophthalmic Services contract costs | 13 | 2.4% |
The table below shows the cost for secondary care organisations submitted via the National Cost Collection for outpatients within Treatment Function Code ‘Paediatric Ophthalmology’, for the financial years 2019/20 and 2020/21, which is the latest available data.
| £ million |
2019/20 | 43.7 |
2020/21 | 50.5 |