The brand new community-based Optometry First companies, bringing eye care nearer to folks’s houses, might be launching in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin subsequent week.
The contract, commissioned by NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, has been awarded to Main Eyecare Companies, a not-for-profit major care optometry organisation, following a young course of earlier this 12 months.
Launching on Tuesday 1 July, it’s going to ship prolonged eye care companies by way of networks of optometry practices throughout the county. This can embrace a brand new Neighborhood Minor and Pressing Eyecare Service (CUES) which is able to exchange the present Minor Eye Care Service (MECS).
Claire Roberts, Optometry Adviser for the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Built-in Care System, mentioned: “That is an thrilling new growth in our eye care supply for the inhabitants of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
“It is going to imply that folks can entry companies extra conveniently and nearer to residence, decreasing the time and expense at present spent on travelling to appointments, while on the identical time investing in our neighborhood companies and easing a number of the strain on our busy hospitals.”
Dharmesh Patel, Chief Govt for Main Eyecare Companies, mentioned: “We’re delighted that we’ve got been awarded the contract to ship the Optometry First Companies for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
“This award displays our confirmed dedication to delivering high-quality, accessible, and patient-centred NHS eye care in native communities throughout 30 Built-in Care Techniques in England.”
The brand new mannequin of care will roll out from 1 July as a part of a phased launch, and can embrace:
- Neighborhood Minor and Pressing Eyecare Service (CUES)
- Enhanced cataract referral and post-operative evaluation
- Built-in Youngsters’s Eye Care Service and post-vision screening help
- Medical retina referral filtering and monitoring
- Glaucoma enhanced case discovering, repeat readings and monitoring
Main Eyecare Companies at present present companies within the bordering areas of Cheshire and Merseyside, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent and Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and work carefully with Shropshire Native Optical Committee (LOC).
