NICE's reaction to the AOP's advice on NICE guidelines do little to reduce the mud in the water surrounding the referral of glaucoma potentials in practice. The latest NICE missive still sets up a situation where thousands of additional patients will be passed on to the hospital service.
As ever the practice feeling happy about the changes are those where an shared care scheme exsits which offers payments for the work optometrists do. Everyone is getting excited about 21mmHg and how that is measured but at the end of the day the issue is the work done and the money paid.
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