Health services
The latest news about health services relating to eye care
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As part of the OFNC, the AOP has highlighted that “it is essential that optometry has a place at the table”
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Membership bodies across optometry and audiology, dentistry and pharmacy have called on the Government to ensure wider primary care professions “have a voice”
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Introduced to Parliament on 6 July, the Health and Care Bill would ensure each part of England has an Integrated Care Board and Integrated Care Partnership
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AOP clinical director, Dr Peter Hampson, identified the possibilities for “exciting new clinical opportunities” for optometry, but also highlighted areas of the plans to monitor closely
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An update on the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine Review has shed light on pay disparities within the NHS
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NHS workers have been discouraged from stockpiling medicines in a letter describing plans for the “unlikely scenario” of an EU exit without agreement
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RNIB has welcomed the Government’s Tobacco Control Plan
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OT speaks to optometrist and LOCSU optical lead, Dharmesh Patel, about the importance of devolving health and social care spending in Greater Manchester
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A membership organisation for private ophthalmologists has been fined for breaches to competition law, including price setting
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The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) believes the government may be considering taxing PIP and urges them against it