Health services

Optometry Ireland has shared that 16,500 patients have been waiting more than a year for hospital eye care

Representative bodies across primary care joined forces to call for the Health and Care Bill to ensure the professions are represented in new decision-making structures

MPs debated eye health and macular disease at a Westminster Hall debate on 11 January

Three challenges for domiciliary optometry in the wake of Omicron

Optometrists may return to work after five days of self-isolation provided a series of conditions are met

The Government has extended the provision of centralised, free personal protective equipment for primary care providers in England for another year

Practices will be required to repay advance payments made in 2021 prompted by glitches in the rollout of a new paper GOS system

Healthcare workers who test positive for COVID-19 may return to work after seven days of isolation if they return negative lateral flow tests

The strain of the pandemic on primary and secondary care has brought to the fore the importance of seeing patients in the right place at the right time. OT  explores the art of triage

Derwent London has been selected as the preferred developer for the City Road Island site, the sale of which will support the funding of the new centre