Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of current progress in treating age-related macular degeneration, what levels of improved funding they will provide to enable hospital eye services to meet demand.

Hospital services for ophthalmic conditions are funded from local National Health Service commissioners’ general recurrent revenue allocations, in common with most other elements of health care. General allocations are not attributed to specific services centrally. Individual commissioners decide the distribution of resources, after taking account of local and national priorities.