Eye Health Research

EDM number 731 in 2014-15, proposed by Annette Brooke on 26/01/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Health finance and Research and innovation.

That this House expresses concern that funding for eye health research has hit crisis point; notes that already more than 40 people lose their sight every day in Britain, currently less than two per cent of combined national medical research funding is spent on the eye and that some three million over 65s, equating to one in six elderly people, will have a degree of sight loss by 2050 that will have a significant impact on their daily lives; further notes that sight loss currently costs the UK economy £22 billion annually and many of the 3.8 million people living with diabetes are at serious risk of poor eye health; and calls on the Government to make eye health a higher priority in the UK.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.