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Eye Disease Treatment

Volume 892: debated on Friday 23 May 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she is satisfied with the facilities available in NHS hospitals for eye diseases.

These facilities, as much as any others in the NHS, can and do benefit from the constant process of renewal and further improvement of services which goes on as resources permit. But if my hon. Friend has in mind any particular aspect, perhaps he would care to write to me.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will list the hospitals where the eye disease retina pigmentosa can be successfully treated in the United Kingdom.

Retinitis pigmentosa is an eye condition leading to blindness which it unfortunately has not been possible to date to treat successfully. Palliative treatment is readily available within the NHS.