Bill Harvey: Pressure point

It’s been a week where pressure has very much figured in the eye news.

To begin with, the new NICE guidance for the diagnosis and management of glaucoma was released. We will be covering this in detail in the coming weeks, but two key points are worth a mention here. Firstly, good to see that the intraocular pressure (IOP) threshold for referral for further investigation has now changed from 21 to 24mmHg or more as measured with a contact tonometer. I am sure this will reduce some unnecessary IOP-only referrals. Hopefully, the days of referral based on a single over 21mmHg non-contact measurement are long gone.