Report puts local eye services in spotlight

A new report from the Optical Confederation and the Centre for Public Scrutiny is designed to help councillors and health boards formulate the right questions when scrutinising their local eye health services.

The report is an update of a 2009 study and has considered the creation of the health and wellbeing boards under current NHS reforms. Ten key areas have been identified, which have been broken down into a series of additional questions and subsections for what the Confederation said would allow comprehensive assessments to be made. It added that it also reflected the government’s prioritisation of eye health through the eye health indicator.