Written question WQ94791
- Asked by
- Sam RowlandsConservative
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 5 days
Question
What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the benefits of a) public expenditure; and b) patients’ wellbeing in relation to an increase in the deployment of combined cataract and glaucoma procedures?
Answer
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Combined glaucoma and cataract operations are a clinical decision based on needs of the patient.
Combined procedures have been carried out by glaucoma surgeons for a number of years across Wales, where appropriate and where the surgeon has been trained to do so.