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Written question asked by David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party) on Wednesday, 19 July 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 24 July 2006. It was answered by Baroness Winterton of Doncaster (Labour) on Monday, 4 September 2006 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Opthalmic Services

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total cost of ophthalmic services in (a) England and (b) each region was in each of the last five years.
Answer

Expenditure on national health service general ophthalmic services is shown in the following table. This covers the cost of NHS-funded sight tests and the cost of NHS optical vouchers to assist with the purchase of spectacles. The table also shows expenditure for the last five years to 2004-05, which is the latest year for which full accounts data is currently available. Data for NHS expenditure on hospital ophthalmic services is not available centrally.

Expenditure on general ophthalmic services by former strategic health authority area
£000
Strategic health authority 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 12,233 12,741 12,520 12,910 14,200
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 8,351 8,700 8,986 9,197 10,364
Birmingham and the Black Country 17,979 18,695 18,908 20,081 21,548
Cheshire and Merseyside 16,230 17,105 16,834 17,276 18,274
County Durham and Tees Valley 7,490 7,891 9,137 8,498 7,561
Cumbria and Lancashire 11,547 12,072 12,510 13,079 13,867
Dorset and Somerset 6,980 7,361 6,349 8,045 8,433
Essex 8,936 9,371 9,774 10,448 10,712
Greater Manchester 16,746 17,498 17,419 18,278 18,733
Hampshire and Isle of Wight 8,998 9,413 9,978 9,917 10,680
Kent and Medway 8,730 8,929 7,919 10,593 10,457
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 8,575 9,289 9,255 10,123 10,804
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 11,483 12,191 12,143 13,292 14,722
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire 8,816 9,517 9,437 9,656 10,523
North Central London 7,235 7,497 7,570 7,621 7,913
North East London 10,831 10,982 10,187 11,924 12,219
North West London 9,094 9,547 9,608 9,498 9,911
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 10,066 10,501 10,985 11,247 11,670
Shropshire and Staffordshire 8,483 9,165 8,696 9,675 10,439
South East London 7,718 8,004 7,615 8,279 8,688
South West London 6,154 5,902 6,021 6,271 6,750
South West Peninsula 10,311 10,557 10,771 10,830 12,107
South Yorkshire 7,810 8,219 8,505 8,972 9,507
Surrey and Sussex 12,820 12,603 13,325 13,538 14,405
Thames Valley 9,223 9,531 9,993 10,290 11,367
Trent 14,994 15,838 16,074 17,425 18,025
West Midlands South 8,675 9,061 8,728 9,352 9,962
West Yorkshire 13,434 14,203 14,664 15,296 16,140
England 289,942 302,383 303,911 321,611 339,981

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
449 c2155-8W; 88145
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Eyesight Testing
Link
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