Simon Browning makes a lot of sense in his White Paper on the future of general ophthalmic services, the case has been made but how is change achieved?
His measured and political-process approach is clear and systematic and his analysis is certainly at one with the Zeitgeist of the future of GOS
The call for a review comes the week after Ian White’s clarion call (news 13.02.15) to ‘revolutionise the NHS sight test as we know it’. While Browning may not be following White over the metaphorical barricades they both convey the anger and frustration of many practitioners.
Bizarrely their shared logic also meets the latest thinking from the NHS (news 04.11.14). It made a great deal of the need to put services back in the community and to take a holistic approach to care to stem the £30bn overspend on the NHS’s £100bn budget expected in the next few years.
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