View from the AOP: We all need to work together

With news last week that there is a backlog of 2,000 hospital eye appointments in Cornwall – there has never been a better time for the AOP and the profession to present a united approach, focusing on how optometry is perfectly placed to provide community eye health services.

Our new policy position on community eye health services spells out how optometry can significantly reduce the load on secondary care, be more convenient for patients, provide good value for money, as well as make greater use of optometry skills. We believe optometrists are the perfect solution and optical practices can work together to address the pressures on secondary care.