A Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish a national eye health strategy for England; and to require that strategy to include measures for improving eye health outcomes, for reducing waiting times for eye health care, for improving patient experiences of eye health care, for ensuring that providers of eye health care work together in an efficient way, for increasing the capacity and skills of the eye health care workforce, and for making more effective use of research and innovation in eye health care.
The National Eye Health Strategy Bill would require the Secretary of State to publish a national eye health strategy for England. The strategy must explain how eye health outcomes will be improved, how waiting times for eye care will be reduced, and how patients’ experiences will be better. It should also set out how providers work together more efficiently, how the eye health workforce will be expanded, and how research and innovation will be used more effectively.
The bill is currently at 1st Reading in the Commons; it has been introduced and is not yet debated. The next step will be the 2nd Reading in the Commons.
Generated 21 February 2026
The 2022-2023 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
