View from AIO: CCG set up is laughable

The whole CCG set up for eye health care in England is laughable, and most people in the world of optics know this.

That something as important as the nation’s eye health care is left to local commissioning groups to balance against the demands of other health services is inappropriate, irresponsible and ultimately unfair on the public. It means that eye health care is a postcode lottery, and practitioners are put in the ridiculous position of having to offer different services to different patients depending on where they live. Of equal concern is that the general public are not aware that this is the case.