Eyesight
(asked on 2nd March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with (a) dry eye syndrome and (b) watering eyes in each of the last five years.
Information is not available on the number of people diagnosed and treated in primary care with dry eye syndrome or watering eyes. It is also not possible to identify those treated in secondary care for dry eye syndrome specifically.
The table below, provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, shows the number of Finished Admission Episodes where there was a primary diagnosis of watering eyes in England for the years 2010/11 – 2014/15.
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Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | ||||||||
Finished Admission Episodes | ||||||||
2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | ||||
4,4431 | 4,398 | 4,423 | 4,495 | 4,334 | ||||
1 These are not counts of people as the same person may have had more than one episode of care within the given time period.