Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to include an option to identify vision-impaired veterans on the registration document with NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
The Department has received initial advice from NHS England and Blind Veterans UK on the collection of this data.
A formal meeting with NHS England, Blind Veterans UK, the Health and Social Care Information Centre and Primary Health Care Optometry leads will be arranged in the next few weeks to consider the options for collecting data on veterans registering as visually impaired and plan the best mechanism for doing so.