Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 10 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the NHS Scotland Operational Improvement Plan, which was published on 31 March 2025, what assessment it has made of whether the increased planned activity through the National Treatment Centre network in 2026-26 should include the offering of combined cataract and trabecular bypass procedures.
In the year 2025/26 all procedures at National Treatment Centres (NTCs) will be cataract surgery. NTCs will not provide glaucoma such as trabecular bypasses. The treatment centres are focusing on delivering higher volume surgery in cataract only lists due to the volume of surgery required. If patients require cataract surgery and an additional procedure they will usually have that surgery undertaken in their Health Board of residence with an Ophthalmologist who specialises in the particular sub-specialty outwith cataracts i.e. Glaucoma.