Eyesight: Testing
(asked on 26th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have received NHS eye tests in (a) Kent, (b) Medway and (c) Gillingham and Rainham constituency in each of the last five years.
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table.
Number of National Health Service sight tests carried out in Kent and Medway, 2009/10 to 2013/14
Year | Area Team/Primary Care Trust | Sight Tests | Totals |
2013/14 | Kent and Medway AT | 414,953 | 414,953 |
2012/13 | Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT | 186,400 | 405,079 |
| West Kent PCT | 163,609 |
|
| Medway PCT | 55,070 |
|
2011/12 | Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT | 188,533 | 416,246 |
| West Kent PCT | 169,826 |
|
| Medway PCT | 57,887 |
|
2010/11 | Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT | 182,669 | 399,985 |
| West Kent PCT | 161,816 |
|
| Medway PCT | 55,500 |
|
2009/10 | Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT | 180,662 | 398,600 |
| West Kent PCT | 162,757 |
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| Medway PCT | 55,181 |
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Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre
Notes:
- The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is able to provide the number of NHS sight tests carried out in England, in both primary care and domiciliary settings. These figures are derived from GOS1 forms submitted by practitioners into the Payments System.
- HSCIC was not able to breakdown the figures by the areas requested. For 2013/14, sight test data were received and published at Area Team level: Kent and Medway. Data prior to 2013/14 was received at PCT level; this is broken down into three areas: Eastern and Coastal Kent, West Kent and Medway.