Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation
Commons · Question 10013 · Tabled 18 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Paul Davies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 October 2024 to Question UIN 7300on Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation, what evidence informed his Department's decision not to regulate vision rehabilitation specialists
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 24 Oct 2024
The Government has made no assessment of the potential merits of extending statutory regulation to vision rehabilitation specialists. Whilst statutory regulation is sometimes necessary where significant risks to users of services cannot be mitigated in ot...