To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what replacement funding will be available for the National Ophthalmology Database audit when its current funding from the Health Quality Improvement Partnership ceases in August 2019.
Answered on
15 February 2019
Most National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) contracts, including the National Ophthalmology Database audit, are commissioned on a contract that allows three years of funding and a further extension of two years, up to a maximum period of five years.
Following an expert evaluation panel in 2017, it was agreed to extend the National Ophthalmology Database audit for two further years, providing a total of five years funding, the maximum allowed under the current contract.
Advice received from NHS England confirms there are currently no plans to continue funding the National Ophthalmology Database audit, under the NCAPOP, after its current funding ceases in August 2019.