The NHS reforms are being driven by a desire to deliver the right services to the right people at the right price, and optometrists are well placed to offer primary eye care services in the high street at a vastly reduced cost to some services in hospitals. Local optical committees will be at the forefront of negotiating and setting up these enhanced schemes and now is the time for optometrists to get involved.
Katrina Venerus, an associate for the Local Optometric Support Unit (LOCSU), stresses that the reforms will only apply to England and will be organised around a new NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB) which will take over responsibility for GOS contracts from April 2013.
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