Cataracts: Surgery
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the quality of lenses used by private providers of NHS cataract surgery.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
No assessment has been made of the quality of lenses used by private providers of National Health Service cataract surgery.
The safety of all patients, whether they are treated in the NHS or the independent sector, is a top priority for the Government. All providers of healthcare are regulated by the Care Quality Commission and follow a set of fundamental standards of safety and quality, below which care should never fall.
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