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Documents and communications about ophthalmic (eye care) services policy
Commissioning community eye care services
General Ophthalmic Services Review - Community based eye care commissioning toolkit launched
Published: 17/01/2007
The Department of Health has launched its findings from the General Ophthalmic Services Review. The main outcome is a commissioning toolkit that provides practical advice for primary care trusts and practice based commissioners on the commissioning of community based eye care services. The toolkit builds on the evaluation of the chronic eye care pilots, which tested community based pathways for glaucoma, age related macular degeneration and low vision services. The GOS review’s findings on a range of other matters have also been published.
Eye Care Strategy Group
The Eye Care Strategy Group has been established to identify, and if necessary develop, and disseminate guidance on best practice in relation to eye care services and support for people with vision problems.
NHS sight test fees, optical voucher values and tax credits
Changes to fees payable for NHS ophthalmic services, and regulations about exemptions.
- General Ophthalmic Services: increases to NHS sight test fee and NHS optical voucher values from 1 April 2009
- General Ophthalmic Services: increases to the NHS sight test fee for the period 1 April 2008 and 31 July 2008
- General Ophthalmic Services: increases to NHS sight test fee, pre-registration supervisors allowance, and continuing education and training allowance
- General Ophthalmic Services: increases to NHS optical voucher values from 1 April 2008
- General ophthalmic services: increases to NHS optical voucher values from 1 April 2007
- General Ophthalmic Services: increases to the sight test fee and pre-registration supervisors allowance from 1 April 2007 and CET allowance for 2007
- General Ophthalmic Services: Increases to NHS sight test fee: Pre-registration supervisors allowance and continuing education and training allowance (November 2006)
- General ophthalmic services: increases to NHS optical voucher values from April 2006
- Increases to sight test fee, optical voucher values and tax credit limits from 1 April 2005
Guidance and Regulations
Regulations, Directions and other key guidance documents.
Eyes and optical services links
Useful links about ophthalmic services.
Additional links
Chronic eye care pathways: evaluation
Community based eye care: case studies
A review of local examples of community based eye care services, which documents a series of case studies, is now available. These case studies complement the recently published commissioning toolkit for community based eye care services and have been developed in partnership with:
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