Local eye care companies secure host of contracts

LOCSU has posted details of each commissioning service won in the past six months, with contracts worth millions to local eye care providers cumulatively.

In September 2014, Wolverhampton CCG awarded a £630,000 contract for glaucoma repeat readings, cataract referral and MECs to Primary Eyecare Heart of West Midlands.

In the following month, newly-set up eye care companies in Kent and Medway, Norfolk and Waveney, and Sheffield won different contracts for services including IOP repeat readings, glaucoma repeat readings and pre- and post-cataract, children’s post screening and referral triage. The Sheffiled schemes were worth £250,000 to 30 practices in the area.

Primary Eyecare North East secured a two-year contract worth £145,000 with three CCGs in November last year, and since January a dozen more areas have either been awarded contracts or renewed. This represented potential income of more than £1m across the different regions since the beginning of the year.