Freedom of Information Request
Please enter the name of your Local Authority
Question 1 a) How many Certificates of Vision Impairment (CVI) were received by the LA in the 2023/24 financial year?
Question 1 b) How many additional requests for a vision rehabilitation assessment were received by the LA in the 2023/24 financial year (i.e from somebody who already is registered as having a CVI or does not have a CVI).
Question 1 c) How many people received a specialist vision rehabilitation assessment in the 2023/24 financial year?
"Question 2. Of the individuals who received a vision rehabilitation assessment in the 2023/24 financial year, how many people were in the following age groups?
Please provide a numerical figure against each age group:
A) 18-64
B) 65 and over "
"Question 3. How do you conduct specialist vision rehabilitation assessments?
Pleaae select one option:
A) All face-to-face
B) All over the phone
C) Combination of both: "
If you selected C, Please specify the split of this
Question 4. Who (please provide job title) is responsible for managing and upkeeping the CVI register across the Local Authority?
"Question 5. What was your authority’s waiting time between receiving a CVI from the hospital, to initial customer contact to discuss needs, in the 2023/24 financial year?
Please select one option:
A) 1 to 3 days
B) 4 to 10 days
C) 11 to 20 days
D) 21 to 31 days
E) 1 to 3 months
F) 4 to 6 months
G) Over 7 months "
"Question 6. How is this initial contact made?
Please select one option:
A) A telephone call from our generalist team
B) A telephone call from our sensory team
C) By post
D) Other"
If you selected D, Please specify
"Question 7. How many people experienced waiting times between referral and receiving a specialist vision rehabilitation assessment, in the 2023/24 financial year, of:
Please provide a numerical figure against each time period:
"
o Less than 28 days
"o 1-2 months
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o 3-4 months
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"o 5-6 months
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"o 7 months – 1 year "
"o Over 1 year"
"Question 8.. How many people experienced waiting times between receiving a specialist vision rehabilitation assessment and recieving support from a rehabilitation specialist, in the 2023/24 financial year, of:
Please provide a numerical figure against each time period:
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o Less than 28 days "
"o 1-2 months "
"o 3-4 months "
"o 5-6 months "
"o 7 months – 1 year "
"o Over 1 year"
"Question 9. What is included in the Vision Rehabilitation support offer from the Local Authority and is any additional support provided by other organisations?
A) Please list all of which apply from the below which are funded through the LA.
o Daily living skills (cooking, dressing, cleaning)
o Orientation/mobility training
o The teaching of or signposting to braille/braille learning services
o Support with technology
o Benefits/ financial advice
o Emotional/psychological support
o Support or advice for family/carers
o Signposting to other relevant services such as information, advice and guidance on emotional support and/or counselling services.
o Providing ‘low tech’ equipment such as liquid level indicators and bump-ons
o Providing ‘high tech’ equipment such as Tablets
o Other: please specify "
"Question 9B) Please list all of which apply from the below which are funded through another funder/outside of the LA.
o Daily living skills (cooking, dressing, cleaning)
o Orientation/mobility training
o Support with technology
o Benefits/ financial advice
o The teaching of or signposting to braille/braille learning services
o Emotional/psychological support
o Support or advice for family/carers
o Signposting to other relevant services such as information, advice and guidance on emotional support and/or counselling services.
o Providing ‘low tech’ equipment such as liquid level indicators and bump-ons
o Providing ‘high tech’ equipment such as Tablets
o Other: please specify "
Question 9b Continued: Where does this funding come from?
"Question 10. How many FTE vision rehabilitation specialists provide rehabilitation support across the LA? "
Question 10b. If there are currently any vacancies for these positions, how many are there?
Question 11. Who else provides support to fulfil the vision rehabilitation offer across the LA?
Question 12. Who is responsible (please provide job title) for the management of vision rehabilitation specialists within the LA?
"Question 13. Is it always vision rehabilitation specialists who complete specialist vision rehabilitation assessments?
Please select one option:
o Yes
o No"
Question 13b - If no, please provide details
"Question 14. Did the amount that the LA annually budgets for its vision rehabilitation service decrease or increase in the financial year 2023/ 2024 from the 2022/2023 financial year?
o Increase
o Decrease
o Stay the same "
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Question 14b - please provide details, if neccessary"
"Question 15. A central aim of RNIB's campaign is for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to create quality guidelines for the provision of effective vision rehabilitation, in line with other areas of adult social care. Do you support the creation of these guidelines?
o Do support
o Do not support
o Unsure"
Question 15b - please provide details
Question 16. Do you have any further comments on vision rehabilitation provision across the LA?