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Connarty, Michael
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I congratulate Ministers on the extra money that will be put into the work of optometrists, who will get extra money to check for problems such as AMD in the elderly. Even in my constituency, outwith England, one optometrist offers X-rays to his patients. However, will that money be paid year on year? In conversations with optometrists, they say that it is great to have the money, but they are worried that it will stop at the end of the year and they will have raised people's expectations of services that will not continue.
I congratulate Ministers on the extra money that will be put into the work of optometrists, who will get extra money to check for problems such as AMD in the elderly. Even in my constituency, outwith England, one optometrist offers X-rays to his patients. However, will that money be paid year on year? In conversations with optometrists, they say that it is great to have the money, but they are worried that it will stop at the end of the year and they will have raised people's expectations of services that will not continue.
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Michael Connarty
(Labour)
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Department of Health
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22 November 2005
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. He will know that resources in the NHS are increasing year on year, up to 2008, and it is expected that planning for such services will form an important part of delivering services of that nature. Photodynamic therapy was implemented as quickly as possible across the NHS, and we had to ensure that we had the staff and equipment to deliver the service effectively and safely.
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Capital investment; Ophthalmology; Macular degeneration; Medical treatments
Date
22 November 2005
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439 c1368
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