New CVI form produced for patients

A new Certificate for Vision Impairment (CVI) form has been designed to make it easier for blind and partially sighted people to access support and services in England.

The Department of Health has updated the CVI form with support from Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and Royal College of Ophthalmologists, to make it easier and quicker for ophthalmologists and eye clinic staff to complete.

Fazilet Hadi, deputy chief executive of RNIB, said: ‘It has been a tremendous patient and sector-wide effort to achieve ministerial sign off of a new CVI form and guidance for England.

‘For the first time, Department of Health guidance makes it crystal clear eye clinic staff, including ECLOs, have a role in completing this form and ophthalmologists are asked to refer patients who need support to them.’