The Eyes Have It partnership (TEHI) is a campaign funded by Roche, designed to champion improvements to eye health care.
Working in tandem with three charities and two professional associations*, the partnership – set up in 2021 – is advocating for the creation of a national plan for eye care.
Activating MPs around the issue of eye care is an important focus of the campaign, and Polimapper thus had an important role to play in presenting the constituency level picture.
To build a constituency picture of eye health, a combination of public data and data collated by charity partners was used.
This includes:
This data was then visualised within Polimapper at both parliamentary constituency level, and health board level across the four nations of the UK.
As this data was mostly available by local health boards in each nation, a conversion was used to transform this data. Each constituency was mapped against a local health board, and where a constituency sat across more than one health board, the health board with the largest share of the constituency was used.
By mapping constituencies to their relevant local health board, an estimated value was calculated. This methodology does rely on an even distribution of populations, but represents the best modelling available for constituency level statistics.
In the four years since its creation, the campaign has held several events in parliament, including two Westminster Eye Health Days.
Polimapper took centre stage at these events, providing a focal point for MPs to get a picture of eye healthcare in their constituency.
These events have helped to activate support from MPs and policymakers, and contributed to the appointment of the first National Clinical Director for Eye Care.
Polimapper continues to play an important role as the partnership continues to press for a national plan for eye care.
Polimapper continues to play an important role as the partnership continues to press for a national plan for eye care.
It features prominently on the Eyes Have It website, and links to a custom landing page built by Polimapper to enable local area searches to be carried out by constituency, health board or by postcode: The ‘Eyes’ Have It | The Eye Health Day
*The Macular Society, Fight for Sight, RNIB, Association of Optometrists, Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
You can learn more about their campaign here – https://eyeshaveit.co.uk/
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