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Low vision interactive 2 – support services

Clinical Practice
Bill Harvey discusses your responses to our recent interactive CET exercise concerning the management of a visually impaired patient in practice and focusing more upon the non-optical and support service help available (C61452)

Again, an excellent response to this exercise which suggested that many of you are aware of a range of help services for those with a visual impairment, and that much can be obtained without the need for first referring into secondary care. Indeed, as care provision evolves, each of us will be increasingly involved with communication and referral within the primary care sector and between a variety of professionals and experts.

Case

A patient attending your practice is known to have dry atrophic macular degeneration which was first identified some five years ago and attends for annual eye checks. Her best corrected acuity is:

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