General Ophthalmic services workforce statistics - 31 December 2019

During 2020 NHS Digital will investigate the availability, quality and relevance of Ophthalmic workforce data from the new provider of Ophthalmic primary care support services in England. We will engage with the relevant organisations to understand responsibilities relating to data assurance and publication to determine whether the General Ophthalmic Services publications can continue. If so, any future releases may differ in scope and form to those currently produced according to the completeness, coverage and quality of the information available. We will provide further details as appropriate.

The new data source does not include workforce information for Ophthalmic practitioners in Wales, so at this stage NHS Digital are unable to commit to continuing a workforce publication for Wales after this 2019 release.