Spectacles
(asked on 1st July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the new Symfony Lens to be available on the NHS as an alternative to glasses.
This question was answered on 7th July 2014
The Department's view is that spectacles or contact lenses can satisfactorily correct almost all refractory errors in a safe, cost-effective way.
Clinical commissioning groups have the discretion to pay for a multi-focal lens on the National Health Service if it is judged clinically necessary for an individual patient.