Veterans: Visual Impairment
(asked on 29th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce an option for people to identify themselves as a veteran on the Certificate of Vision Impairment.
This question was answered on 2nd July 2015
The Department currently has no plans to revise the Certificate of Vision Impairment. However, following discussions with the Royal National Institute of Blind People, Blind Veterans UK, NHS England, NHS optometry leads and the Health and Social Care Information Centre other options for identifying visually impaired veterans are being explored.