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Community Eye Care Services: Review of local schemes for low vision, glaucoma and acute care

This document contains a review of local examples of community eye care services. It has been developed as part of the Department of Health's on-going programme of support for community eye care services in partnership with NHS Primary Care Commissioning. It complements and sits alongside the 'Commissioning Toolkit', developed by the Department of Health, following the General Ophthalmic Services (GOS) Review. More details about the GOS can be found on the DH site.

This PCC resource also supports the delivery of key Department of Health policy objectives for both commissioning and provision of high quality local services, closer to where patients live, moving appropriate primary care services outside the hospital setting, and providing greater choice and accessibility of services to patients. It supports the objectives within recent publications such as the White paper 'Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services', Practice Based Commissioning guidance, and the NHS Operating Framework for 2007-08.

Community Eye Care Services Review

The main document includes:

Key themes for commissioners and providers
Business planning and self-assessment
Other useful resources
Summaries of local schemes

Click here to access the main Community Eye Care Services Review document

If you have a scheme you would like to add to the database, click here to download the scheme summary template

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Scheme summaries