Joe Ayling: What can the NHS do for optics?

Locsu has welcomed the arrival of Specsavers on the enhanced services scene (see In focus) and interested independents must not delay a move into primary care services.

At last count, the unit had helped set up more than 500 services across the UK – up a quarter since 2014 – and the arrival of more than 700 Specsavers practices can only help join the dots of Locsu’s Atlas of Optical Variation.

The multiple’s latest direction of travel was shared at Optrafair in April and a sequence of events since has shown it means business, with heads of enhanced optical services (EOS) appointed, Mecs training accelerated and now a campaign in the House of Lords.