LOCSU issues guidance for NHS Call to Action

Locally derived data and patient endorsement are among the recommendations for LOCs in new guidance issued by LOCSU as part of the profession’s response to the NHS Call to Action (CTA).

LOCSU and the Optical Confederation plan to submit a national response, but LOCSU urged LOCs to work with practices and practitioners to ensure the voice of optics was heard on a local level.

It said that local commissioners should be reminded that the piecemeal commissioning of basic community services such as minor eye conditions, glaucoma repeat readings and cataract referral refinement added significantly to NHS transaction costs and was a barrier to service transformation.