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For Professionals

Service Updates

6 November 2024

It has been a busy quarter for our Service team, who are responsible for implementing new services across England.

Service Updates

We are pleased to share the most recent services to be mobilised are as follows:

  • Lancashire & South Cumbria – Community Urgent Eyecare Services, Glaucoma Referral Refinement, Post-Cataract, Glaucoma Enhanced Case Finding, Adult Low Vision Service
  • Cheshire & Merseyside – Referral Management Single Point of Access (SPoA)
  • North Central London – Glaucoma Referral Refinement, Pre-Cataract, Post-Cataract and Community Eye Care Service

Additionally, Primary Eyecare Services are delighted to announce that following a successful tender submission, we have been awarded a 3-year contract for provision of Optometry Led Community Eye Care Services by NHS North-West London Integrated Care Board (ICB).

The contract will commence during the Autumn and carries an optional 24-month extension period at the end of the 3-year term.

The key services included within the contract are a Cataract Pre Referral Assessment, Glaucoma Referral Filtering and the Community Eye Service (CES).

Keep an eye of for further information which will be distributed soon as part of the implementation.