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...