Changes to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance relating to suspected retinal detachment have been backed by the College of Optometrists.
The College had recommended the changes to the guidance – encouraging a greater role for optometrists in the examination of patients with suspected retinal detachment.
It had worked with the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in lobbying NICE to amend its Clinical Knowledge Summary (CKS) on retinal detachment.
The changes made it clear that any practitioner competent and able to use slit lamp indirect ophthalmoscopy can examine patients with symptoms of flashes and floaters without the need to refer the patient to an ophthalmologist.
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