Cataracts: Surgery
(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the waiting times have been for cataract surgery in each clinical commissioning group in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 17th November 2017
A count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of cataracts and a primary cataract procedure, by clinical commissioning group, with average waiting times (days) for the financial years 2014-15 to 2016-17 is supplied in the attached table.
This is a count of hospital activity, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into an National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion.