Ireland report calls for community eye care

Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) has published a first ever national review of Primary Care Eye Services.

The Primary Care Eye Services Review Group Report (PCESRG) highlighted the limitations of the current model of delivery and set out the way forward for a significant amount of eye services to be delivered in a primary care setting.

The report estimated that 60% of existing outpatient activity could be moved to the community.

‘A large proportion of acute hospital services and consequent waiting lists are taken up by patients who could be seen, diagnosed and treated in the community,’ it noted.

FODO Ireland welcomed the report and agreed far more care should be provided in the community.