A community eye care scheme designed to reduce A&E waiting times has received an audit award.
Wolverhampton Local Optical Committee's (LOC) Primary Eye-care Assessment and Referral Service (PEARS), which launched in September 2014, was credited by the hospital trust as its best audit for 'partnership working with professional stakeholders'.
The scheme now has more than half of local optometry practices involved, delivering over 1,500 PEARS consultations since September with around 80 per cent examined and discharged or treated in the community.
LOC co-chair Prab Boparai said: ‘This was an exciting recogniton of the collaboration between optometry and ophthalmology and the hard work that has gone into the service.’
Wolverhampton LOC Secretary Peter Rockett and Boparai are pictured receiving the audit award.