Domiciliary code receives update following DoH comments

FODO’s Domiciliary Eyecare Committee has updated its code of practice following feedback from the Department of Health on the original code, published a year ago.

The committee, which includes representation from the AOP and ABDO, is mass-mailing the updated code to primary care trusts, local councils and care homes in a continued attempt to assert clinical and ethical commitments.

RNIB research has stated that more than one million older people are confined to either their own home or a care home, but only a third of this number of tests were carried out last year.

Committee chairman Jayne Rawlinson said: ‘We are extremely grateful to Derek Busby at the Department of Health for his advice on drafts of this code and we hope that having agreed some changes even more PCTs can take on board these benchmarks and continue to strive for the first rate service that older people deserve.’