Janet Finch-Saunders

First Minister, 29 per cent of people within the Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board do not have regular two-yearly eye tests, with one of the primary reasons given for this that they hadn’t even thought about it, or didn’t see the importance of it. Given the other serious eye conditions that can be detected during a routine eye test, how will you work, and your Government, to ensure that we have a better, improved uptake of regular eye tests?

Carwyn Jones The First Minister

These things are important, as the Member has said. We are the first country in the world to have an eye care plan, and we encourage people to take regular eye tests, not just to test their eyesight, but, as the Member rightly points out, a number of conditions that are not only eye-related can actually be diagnosed via such an eye test. The eye care plan itself, of course, explains how we offer a holistic approach to people’s eye health.