| Heading: |
General Practitioners and Out-patients: Visual Impairment |
| Question ID: |
1795236 |
| UIN: |
46609 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5350 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ben Maguire
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| Asking Member handle: |
BenMaguireNC
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@BenMaguireNC
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of patients' (a) blindness and (b) partial sightedness on levels of attendance at (i) GP and (ii) hospital appointments. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
The Department has made no formal assessment of the impact of visual impairment on levels of attendance. However, we are aware of the challenges that visual impairments can present when accessing healthcare services.Under the Equality Act (2010), health a... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |