In Focus: Utilising the workforce

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IT connectivity, pathway development and more training opportunities for optometrists were identified as key areas for the profession by the new president of the College of Optometrists. Gillian Ruddock told Optician that enhanced connectivity across primary and secondary care was an opportunity for optometry to create better pathways for improved patient care.

‘If we can get that two-way process, you won’t be working in a bunker, you’ll be able to co-treat and co-manage, and transfer care to the right place in both directions. We have patients in secondary care who don’t need to be seen here, who are managed most appropriately in primary care.