Will the abolition of NHS England herald a new age for optometric NHS services, or will we continue to see the same old problems recurring? Much as I would like to think we may be witnessing the dawn of a new era, I fear this is a false hope.
In large part, the problems for patients on a day-to-day basis have little to do with the manifest incompetencies we have known about for so long in NHS England.
Rather they lie at a more local level with integrated care boards and the total inability of service commissioners to see the benefits that optometry has to offer to their populations.
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