The information requested is shown in the following tables.

Counts of first outpatient appointments for treatment specialties ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology, optometry, and orthoptics, that were cancelled by the patient by the hospital or where the patient did not attend for patients aged 19 years and over in England for 2015-16.

Counts of follow-up outpatient appointments for treatment specialties ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology, optometry, and orthoptics that were cancelled by the patient by the hospital or where the patient did not attend for patients aged 19 years and over in England for 2015-16.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

Treatment specialty codes

The following codes were used to identify treatment specialties:

130 - Ophthalmology

460 - Medical ophthalmology

655 - Orthoptics

662 - Optometry

The information requested is shown in the following tables.

Counts of first outpatient appointments for treatment specialties ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology, optometry, and orthoptics, that were cancelled by the patient by the hospital or where the patient did not attend for patients aged 19 years and over in England for 2015-16.

Counts of follow-up outpatient appointments for treatment specialties ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology, optometry, and orthoptics that were cancelled by the patient by the hospital or where the patient did not attend for patients aged 19 years and over in England for 2015-16.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

Treatment specialty codes

The following codes were used to identify treatment specialties:

130 - Ophthalmology

460 - Medical ophthalmology

655 - Orthoptics

662 - Optometry

The information requested is in the following table.

Median waiting times (days) of first outpatient appointments for treatment specialties ophthalmology, paediatric ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology optometry, and orthoptics in England for 2015-16

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital

Notes:

The following codes were used to identify treatment specialties:

130 - Ophthalmology

216 - Paediatric Ophthalmology

460 - Medical ophthalmology

662 - Optometry

655 - Orthoptics

Information on all contracts as identified from the largest three total payments made to the top four consulting firms across financial years 2013-14 to 2015-16 are contained in the attached table.

Values for all four suppliers relate to cash payments made against purchase orders as per Crown Commercial Services requirements and is not comparable with any consultancy expenditure data that may be published annually by the Department, which are resource (accruals) based.

The breakdown for the last three financial years 2013-14 to 2015-16 for both the Department’s cost and how many times it has used the services of Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers are all contained in the attached table.

Spend for all four firms is taken from cash receipted amounts against purchase orders in line with Crown Commercial Services definitions and is not comparable with consultancy costs data published annually by the Department, where all now reported as resource (accruals) based.

Any further information would incur disproportionate cost to provide.

In line with privacy and data protection legislation as well as standing Cabinet Office instructions, the exact numbers and details of individual roles cannot be published. This is to prevent the personal identification of individuals either directly or in combination with other published information.

There have been two appointments in total into Senior Civil Servant roles as follows, during the years in question as follows:

During the same period of time, at lower grades the following table summarises the disclosable information

The above information does not include secondees to the Department’s agencies or arms’ length bodies.