Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the (a) effectiveness and (b) potential impact on patient safety of (i) regulations and (ii) the governance structure for refractive eye surgery.

The Secretary of State has no plans to assess the regulations and governance structure for refractive eye surgery.

Doctors performing refractive eye surgery in the United Kingdom must be registered with the General Medical Council (GMC), the independent regulator of all medical doctors practising in the UK.

Providers who carry out refractive eye surgery must also be registered by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. All refractive eye surgery locations are monitored and, where necessary, inspected by CQC.

If CQC become aware of any concerns regarding an individual medical practitioner, then CQC will notify the GMC.