Newmedica reopens

Newmedica has reopened its clinics in England to provide urgent and essential eye care to existing and new patients after it closed during lockdown.

A remote pre-screening pathway has been developed for patients requiring an operation and all new referral will be triaged remotely by a specialist optometrist and consultant eye surgeon.

Dr Nigel Kirkpatrick, medical director at Newmedica in Gloucester, said: ‘Almost three months has passed since care had to be suspended and that’s a very long time for eye health issues to deteriorate or manifest, so we expect that we will see an upsurge in referrals from optometrists in the coming months.’