Spreading the enhanced services message

Why the increased focus on enhanced services?

Adam Wannell Well, this isn’t a new focus, Specsavers has had this focus internally for a long time before I joined and brought that view to the rest of the sector in 2015. There has been a growing need for optometrists to become more involved with clinical services for some time and it is a natural progression of the profession. The NHS now has a massive burden both from population increase and improved detection and treatment of eye disease. When you combine this with a shift in barriers impeding our involvement with clinical services, for example independent prescribing, the introduction of post-graduate optometry education and a desire from optometrists themselves to be more clinically involved, it is not surprising.