Health services

Data from the optical sector to be used for NHS England Connectivity Programme

A Committee in Common has agreed to a new £250m development that would see Moorfields move its City Road services to Camden

Optometrists are advised that patients with cold or flu symptoms can be asked to book their appointment for when they have fully recovered

A software glitch that transposed digital photographs of the eye resulted in an injection error at Wye Valley NHS Trust

A new report into the capacity of hospitals for treating glaucoma patients has been published

OT  learns how providing sight tests and spectacles to the homeless is helping to change lives in Hampshire and Dorset

The AOP opposed NHS Digital’s proposal to stop publishing workforce and activity data

A sterile headscarf is now available to staff working in the operating theatres of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton

Follow-up care can be delivered to patients closer to home by community optometrists, a new report states

Statistics that would no longer be published under the plan include the number of NHS-funded sight tests carried out each year and the number of ophthalmic practitioners