| Heading: |
Glaucoma |
| Question ID: |
1804240 |
| UIN: |
53393 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5283 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alison Bennett
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Alison Bennett
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who will have glaucoma in England in each of the next 10 years. |
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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 |