Vision rehabilitation services

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 

A) 18 – 64: 178                                   B) 65 and over: 867

Question 3. How do you conduct specialist vision rehabilitation assessments? 

Please select one option:

A) All face-to-face
B) All over the phone
C) Combination of both: 

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

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:

Question 8.. How many people experienced waiting times between receiving a specialist vision rehabilitation assessment and receiving support from a rehabilitation specialist, in the 2023/24 financial year, of:

Please provide a numerical figure against each time period:

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 13. Is it always vision rehabilitation specialists who complete specialist vision rehabilitation assessments?

Please select one option:

o Yes
o No

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  

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