PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Ophthalmic Services (19 January 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish the (a) organisations and people responsible for the (i) oversight and (ii) implementation of the National Outpatient Transformation Programme for ophthalmology and (b) dates and minutes of programme meetings.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

The National Outpatient Transformation Programme is overseen and implemented by the NHS Improvement Directorate, led by Hugh McCaughey, the National Director of Improvement. The Programme is based within the NHS Transformation Directorate, led by Tim Ferris, the National Director of Transformation. Ophthalmology formed part of this work from 2020 to March 2021, when a new National Eyecare Improvement Programme took responsibility for ophthalmology outpatient service improvement.

The governance framework and the minutes for these meetings, including dates, are attached. The minutes have been redacted to remove personal information.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
3 March 2022