Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to capture data on delays in follow-up appointments for ophthalmology services.

National Health Service providers should already collect data setting out the earliest and latest clinically appropriate date a patient should be reviewed. NHS Trusts’ collection and use of this data is routinely captured and published on the Model Health System, which is a data-driven improvement tool supporting health and care systems to improve patient outcomes.