| Heading: |
Ophthalmic Services: Glaucoma |
| Question ID: |
1804241 |
| UIN: |
53394 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5283 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alison Bennett
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Alison Bennett
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many qualified ophthalmic (a) consultants and (b) doctors there are who are able to treat glaucoma; how many people have glaucoma; and what estimate he has made of trends in these numbers over |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-27 |
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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: |
The UK National Screening Committee does not recommend screening for glaucoma because it is not clear if the tests which are available are accurate enough to be used in a screening programme. Regular sight tests are important in detecting glaucoma, which ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |