Ophthalmology and OMPs
Vision profile statistical commentary: September 2023
An 2021 Atlas of variation in risk factors and healthcare for vision in England, now updated .
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities has updated specific indicators in the vision profile in England.
The Atlas of Variation vision profile ‘gives local areas comparable indicators of risk factors, healthcare provision and outcomes for vision health to support commissioning and planning and to identify unwarranted geographical variation’.
The data shows more than 8.4 million outpatient attendances in England, about 5,422 per 100,000 population, by 2022 – still below the rate pre-Covid.
In an addition to a range of risk factors and sight loss outcome indicators, this profile presents 5 Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) indicators up to the financial year ending 2022:
- vision outpatient attendances
- vision outpatient attendances (persons based)
- admissions to hospital for cataract surgery in people aged 65 years and over
- admissions to hospital for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment surgery in people aged 18 years and over
- intravitreal injection therapy procedures in people aged 60 years and over
