Everyone should have their eyes checked regularly
Regular sight tests are important, not only to test sight but
also to detect diseases such as glaucoma, diabetes and cataracts or
other abnormalities of the eye and of the body in general.
Primary Eye Care is provided in the community
by optometrists and dispensing opticians and their staff. Along
with our partners, the Worcester Acute Trust Group of Hospitals in
secondary care, we aim to provide Worcestershire
residents with the best of visual health.
This care is made available to NHS Worcestershire as a result of
General Ophthalmic Services contracts within the framework created
by the National Health Service Act 2006. The framework comprises
three levels of service contracts, which are referred to as
mandatory, additional and
enhanced.
- Mandatory services are the sight testing
service when carried out at a practice. NHS Worcestershire provides
this service through local optometrists who will provide NHS funded
sight tests from a practice.
- Additional services - the only additional
service that has been prescribed in regulations is mobile services
i.e. provision of NHS funded sight tests at day centres,
residential care homes and individuals' own homes. However, whilst
some providers of additional services may also be providers of
mandatory services, this is not a requirement. It is entirely in
order to be a provider of additional services without being a
provider of mandatory services (and vice versa).
- Enhanced services are any other primary
ophthalmic services commissioned at the discretion of NHS
Worcestershire to meet what we consider to be necessary primary
ophthalmic services in Worcester.
Currently we are about to go live with post operative cataract
follow up and in the future stable glaucoma monitoring
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Last updated on 30 March 2012