The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’s (OHID) new Vision profile, provides local areas with comparable indicators of risk factors, healthcare provision and outcomes for vision health to support commissioning and planning and to identify unwarranted geographical variation.

The vision profile updates selected indicators developed for the 2021 Atlas of Variation in risk factors and healthcare for vision in England.

This release highlights new data for outpatients and procedures for eye care:

• vision outpatient attendances
• vision outpatient attendances (persons based)
• admissions to hospital for cataract surgery in people aged 65 years and over
• admissions to hospital for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment surgery in people aged 18 years and over
• intravitreal injection therapy procedures in people aged 60 years and over

This has been added as a resource in the members’ area on the LOOP page.