Visual Impairment: Technology
(asked on 1st February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made made of the potential merits of providing microchip implants through the NHS for patients with visual impairments.
This question was answered on 10th February 2022
Interventional procedures guidance published by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on the insertion of a subretinal prosthesis system (surgically implanting a microchip behind the retina) for retinitis pigmentosa recommends that this procedure should only be used in the context of research, due to limited evidence on its safety and efficacy.