| Heading: |
Ophthalmic Services: Schools |
| Question ID: |
1757820 |
| UIN: |
25806 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5120 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Shockat Adam
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| Asking Member handle: |
shockatadam
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@shockatadam
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many eye care professionals are delivering NHS Special School Eye Care Service under Primary Ophthalmic Service contracts; and how many special schools are in receipt of that service. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
As of March 2024, 38 optometrists and 29 dispensing opticians had been recorded as delivering sight testing services within the 83 special educational settings, participating in the proof-of-concept programme. Regulations were laid on 28 November 2024 to ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |