Written questions

Glaucoma: Health Services

Commons · Question 48082 · Tabled 25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 6 May 2025

Question

Asked by Sir Iain Duncan Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that community-based glaucoma (a) monitoring, (b) referral and (c) refinement services are made available to patients in (i) Chingford and Woodford Green constitue

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 6 May 2025

Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning primary and secondary eye care services in their local areas to meet patient need, and this will include services to meet the needs of patients with glaucoma.The North East London ICB has con...