Safety recommendation
It is recommended that NHS England and NHS Improvement commission NHS Digital to publish reports of hospital eye services’ compliance with the follow-up
appointments performance standard included in the Portfolio of Indicators for Eye Health and Care.
Response:
NHS Digital has taken forward this recommendation alongside the other recommendation HSIB directed at them in this report (Safety recommendation R/2020/063). NHS England and NHS Improvement does not commission NHS Digital to provide information in the portfolio of eye health indicators. NHS England and NHS Improvement understand that in 2020 NHS Digital established the plans and tactical requirements for changes to the ophthalmology datasets to address both these recommendations and data collection is expected to commence in April 2022. This response is for completeness in case NHS Digital’s formal response to you in respect to Safety recommendation R/2020/063 and any subsequent updates did not make that clear.
Response received on 27 July 2021.