PPE support required for successful restart

A survey of attitudes to personal risk and PPE use by optometrists during and after the pandemic has been carried out by the University of Portsmouth.

The report aimed to find out what preparations are being made and how optometrists feel about reopening or providing more than emergency and urgent eye care.

A total of 108 optometrists answered questions about infection control, sources of guidance and information about PPE and how referral pathways were operating.

Survey authors concluded that clear understanding and confidence in PPE is the key to getting back to work following the Covid-19 pandemic, but highlighted that practitioners need to support to successfully restart practices.