questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of children in receipt of the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service have (a) a need for glasses and (b) another sight problem.
answerText: From April 2021 to September 2023, there have been 15,858 sight tests completed under the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service. Of these, 10,785 have no history of hospital-based eye care attached to them, 1,672 are listed as being active in hospital-base...
heading: Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs