Department of Health Eye Care Pathways and Commissioning Guidance

Department of Health - Commissioning Toolkit for Community Based Eye Care Services 2007

The Department of Health  launched its toolkit for community based eye care services in January 2007. This toolkit, emerging from the General Ophthalmic Services Review, builds on the work of the Eye Care Services Steering Group and their pilot eye care pathways. It is intended to offer practical advice for Primary Care Trusts and practice based commissioners on commissioning community based eye care services. The toolkit is available as a pdf document at the bottom of this page. It can also be accessed, along with further background information from the Department of Health by clicking on the link below:

http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/Optical/fs/en

NHS Primary Care Commissioning - Community Eye Care Services: Review of local schemes for low vision, glaucoma and acute care 2007

This document is 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 Department of Health's 'Commissioning Toolkit for Community based Eye Care Services', referred to above. The PCC review document supports the delivery of key Department of Health policy objectives for both the 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.

You can view this document as a pdf file at the bottom of this page or click on the PCC website for further details, link below:

http://www.primarycarecontracting.nhs.uk/203.php

Department of Health/NHS Primary Care Commissioning - Step-by-Step Guide to Commissioning Community Eye Care Services 2007

The purpose of this guide is to provide information and practical tools for PCTs and Practice Based Commissioners as they commission enhanced primary eye care services. It complements and builds on the two publications listed above - the Department of Health 'Commissioning Toolkit for Community based Eye Care Services' and the NHS Primary Care Contracting 'Review of Local Schemes for Low Vision, Glaucoma and Acute Care' - all three documents available in pdf format at the end of this page.