In Focus: Cataract collaboration

Guidance for providers of cataract services was published by The Royal College of Ophthalmologists in March and included details of how patients could be better managed in the community by optometrists.

A Cataract Workforce Guidance Development Group, led by consultant ophthalmologist Jonathan Bhargava, was set up to support local eye health systems in meeting an increasing demand for cataract surgery in a joined-up way.

‘We’ve done this deep dive on the whole pathway and looked with a fresh pair of eyes at how it can be improved,’ Bhargava told Optician.

Guidance was commissioned by the College because of the wide variation of how cataract services were provided throughout the UK.