Eye Care Strategic Commissioning

8 November 2011

Learning disabilities – service specification and data collection form published

NHS Sefton has recently commissioned an enhanced ophthalmic service for domiciliary ophthalmic services to Sefton residents with profound learning disabilities who cannot attend a community practice unattended.  PCC is publishing the service specification and the invoice and data collection form for this service as an example of emerging practice for PCTs and clusters who might be considering commissioning a similar service for their own residents.  The contract for NHS Sefton’s service follows the format of PCC’s model enhanced services contract and the specification is intended to form Schedule 3 of such a contract.  Claim forms for the service are locally modified versions of the HES series of forms.

Model Enhanced Services Contract - 9 February 2010

The Model Enhanced Services Contract is now available here.

World Class Commissioning Guide to Improving primary eye health services published - updated 20 July 2009

The Department of Health published a new World Class Commissioning Guide to Improving primary eye health services at the South West WCC event on 17 July 2009.  This guide is intended to build awareness and capability within PCTs.  To support world class commissioning, PCTs need to make sure there is appropriate eye care input at Board level whenever decisions about commissioning primary eye health services are taken.

12/06/08: Eye Care Board Briefing

The first issue of a new NHS PCC Eye Care Board Briefing, a sister publication to the NHS PCC Dental Services Board Bulletin, has just been published. It summarises all the latest developments in the NHS eye care services reform programme and signposts related issues currently coming to the fore.

Click here to read the first issue.

UPDATED 21/07/08 12/12/07 Step by step guide to commissioning community eye care services

The guide has been updated (July 2008) to incorporate alternative service cost models from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.  The link to the PDF below has been updated to the new version.  Previous downloads and hard copy printed versions should be updated with the new version.

This guide seeks to provide information and practical tools for PCTs and Practice Based Commissioners. Offering an analytical, 'how to' approach to some of the key issues in commissioning high quality eye care services locally, it will help:

• Practice Based Commissioners and PCTs take ownership of eye care commissioning priorities, mitigate commissioning risks and develop and evaluate alternative primary care eye services
• Assess, in simple terms, what the patient demand is on hospital eye care services
• Describe what alternatives there are to building capacity across the system to achieve the 18 Week referral to Treatment (RTT) target
• Describe what investment may be needed in primary care and any potential commissioning savings
• Develop skills and techniques to commission more effectively, including engaging patients and the public, making eye care services more accessible for an aging population.

A pdf of the guide can be downloaded by clicking here.

To request a hard copy of the step by step guide, please email: yewande.ipaye@dh.gsi.gov.uk

To feedback any comments on the guide and whether you find it useful, please email: julia.battersby@pcc.nhs.uk

Chronic Eye Disease Management Event - May 2004

During 2004, NatPaCT ran a series of events, following the Report of the National Eye Care Services Steering Group, which introduced streamlined patient pathways in eyecare. Various resources from and relating to the event are available to download below:

• Presentations from the Chronic Eye Disease Management Event - May 2004
• Cataract photographs from the Chronic Eye Disease Management Event - May 2004
• Eye Care Report from the Chronic Eye Disease Management Event - May 2004