Healthcare provider Optegra hosted around 60 senior NHS colleagues, business leaders, optometrists, healthcare partners, and members of parliament at an event on October 8 at the UK House of Commons to mark the launch of the Breaking Down Barriers to Healthcare Impact report.
Optegra commissioned the report, which aimed to initiate closer relationships between private and public sector eye care, from Patients First Coalition, part of the Purpose Coalition, and has been working collaboratively on the project for the past six months. 
In an opening speech, Purpose Coalition chair Nick Forbes said: ‘The Breaking Down Barriers Commission was deliberately created as a way of galvanising and capturing all the experience that you, our members, have developed over the last five or six years. In this report, Optegra demonstrated that you can create social value in addition to the direct benefit of the service that you provide as well.
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