Written question asked by Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour) on Tuesday, 10 April 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 2 May 2001. It was answered by John Denham (Labour) on Wednesday, 2 May 2001 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged over 60 years have had eye tests in each year since 1995-96 in Sefton Health Authority. - Inc table.

Answer: Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people aged over 60 years have had eye tests in each year since 1995-96 in Sefton health authority. [158529] Mr. Denham: From information obtained on the age of patients from an annual, national sample survey of opticians' work load, we estimate that the following numbers of sight tests were carried out among the 70,500 people, aged 60 and over, whom we estimate are resident in Sefton. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Number of sight tests 1995-96 26,200 1996-97 27,000 1997-98 29,700 1998-99 28,100 1999-2000 32,500 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 367 c646W; 158529
Session: 2000-01
Subjects: Eyesight Pensioners Older people Ophthalmic services Testing Sefton Sefton Health Authority
Contains statistics: Yes
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