FOI Ref: 0067FOI2021

9^th September 2020

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information

We are pleased to respond to your request for information and our response is set out below:

Request

Request for Information under the Freedom of Information Act 

Cataract Surgery – 

Please provide a copy of, or link to, your clinical threshold policy for cataract surgery and state whether this has changed in the past 4 years.  If it has changed, please provide a copy of, or link to, the former policy and date of change. 

For each of the four financial years; 

1. 2016-17 b) 2017-18 c) 2018-19 d) 2019-20, please provide for each year: 

1.  The CCG registered population 
2. The number of Individual Funding Requests (IFRs) and/or prior approval (PA) requests that the CCG received for cataract surgery 
3. The number of Individual Funding Requests (IFRs) and/or prior approval (PA) requests that the CCG approved for cataract surgery  
4. The CCG’s total activity for cataract surgery (i.e. the total number of procedures carried out) 
5. The average waiting time in days for cataract surgery from first referral 

And for each month, beginning January 2019, to present: 

6. The CCG’s total activity for cataract surgery (i.e. the total number of procedures carried out) 
7. The average waiting time in calendar days for cataract surgery for the procedures completed in that month 

 Please supply this information in an Excel Spreadsheet.

Response

Please see enclosed completed spreadsheet – 0067FOI2021 FOI cataract surgery Template COMPLETE.