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National Eye Health Week 2022

  • Submitted by: Stuart McMillan, Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
  • Motion reference: S6M-05903
  • Current status: Achieved cross-party support

That the Parliament notes National Eye Health Week, which runs from 19 to 25 September 2022 and provides an opportunity to promote the importance of maintaining good eye health, and to raise awareness of the services and support available to people on the sight loss pathway across Scotland; considers that everyone in Scotland should undertake a free eye health check at least every two years to pick up as early as possible any changes before they affect vision, and allow effective treatment regardless of where they live or what background they come from; understands that 50% of sight loss is avoidable; notes the work across the third sector, optometry, the NHS and Scottish Government in developing the provisions of the sight loss pathway; further notes the support for continued focus on improving the communication and shifting the balance of care between available services, and increasing the use of the best available technology in patients' sight loss journey; notes the support for an end-to-end sight loss pathway providing patients with the best care possible; recognises the work of Optometry Scotland and the visual impairment sector in supporting the work of the NHS and social services on the sight loss pathway; commends the efforts of Optometry Scotland and RNIB Scotland in promoting National Eye Health Week, and notes the calls for people living in Greenock and Inverclyde, and across Scotland, to book their free eye health check if they have not done so in the last two years.


Supported by: Karen Adam, Jackie Baillie, Jeremy Balfour, Colin Beattie, Neil Bibby, Siobhian Brown, Alexander Burnett, Maggie Chapman, Foysol Choudhury, Graeme Dey, Bob Doris, Jackie Dunbar, Pam Duncan-Glancy, Annabelle Ewing, Joe FitzPatrick, Kenneth Gibson, Pam Gosal, Emma Harper, Bill Kidd, Fulton MacGregor, John Mason, Marie McNair, Audrey Nicoll, Mark Ruskell, Paul Sweeney, David Torrance, Mercedes Villalba, Sue Webber