View from ABDO: We can help reduce the strain on the NHS

Submissions have been made following the GOC’s call for evidence for its Strategic Education Review. While this exercise was primarily for input into the review of education it highlighted a number of areas we would do well to be mindful of.

It is well known the NHS is under considerable financial strain and with a growing and ageing population it will be more difficult to deliver services. In the devolved nations (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) some in-roads have been made in the delivery of enhanced services in the community and England is slowly commissioning these services and it is imperative dispensing opticians, contact lens opticians and low vision opticians are involved in the delivery of these services.