Visual Impairment
(asked on 23rd March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished consultant episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma, (c) diabetic retinopathy and (d) cataracts there were in the NHS in England in each of the last five years.
The following table provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) shows the number of finished consultant episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma, (c) diabetic retinopathy and (d) cataracts in the National Health Service in England between 2009/10 and 2013/14.
Year | Age-related Macular Degeneration | Glaucoma | Diabetic Retinopathy | Cataracts |
2009-10 | 100,455 | 95,400 | 63,143 | 381,071 |
2010-11 | 128,439 | 123,962 | 77,704 | 390,571 |
2011-12 | 138,202 | 133,061 | 78,419 | 389,181 |
2012-13 | 149,635 | 139,385 | 80,615 | 395,882 |
2013-14 | 152,583 | 156,115 | 93,058 | 437,038 |
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Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, HSCIC | ||||
This data includes patients who were treated as inpatients or day cases (admitted patient care) but not patients who were treated as an outpatient.
It should be noted that the data shown above is not a count of people, as the same person may have had an episode of care on more than one occasion within the same year.