United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 19965
Eyesight: Children
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24 February 2020
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27 February 2020 · Answer
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27 February 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the effect of the absence of mandatory pre-school eye tests on health inequality in the UK.
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24 February 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the effect of the absence of mandatory pre-school eye tests on health inequality in the UK.
Source: Commons
27 February 2020
Answer
In June 2019, the United Kingdom National Screening Committee re-affirmed its recommendation that children should be offered orthoptic-led vision screening between four and five years of age. Vision defects looked for in the school age screening test incl...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-02-24/19965
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1179889
- uk · wq-1179889 · source updated 27 February 2020