Supporting people with visual impairments is everyone’s responsibility, from receptionists to qualified eye care professionals and decision makers, so please share these suggestions with your whole team as together, we can improve services Eye Care and allied health professionals.Optician Magazine, Association of independent opticians, optometry today, primary health net, dispensing optics magazine Share news stories and press releases with optical media and connect/share on social media.Invite eye care professionals to join your board of trustees.Engage with allied health professionals including GPs, nurses, diabetic clinics, neurology, community falls/frailty and stroke teams.Deliver training and provide tours of your resource centre at times when eye care professionals can attend which is generally after working hours.Develop a team of service users to become mystery shoppers to assess practices and provide feedback.Hire your training rooms to the eye care sector.
Encourage eye care professionals to subscribe to your newsletter and social media platforms.Seek to become part of Local Eye Health Networks (LEHN) *(England Only).Connect with your local / regional optical committee (ROC/LOC) and ophthalmological society, attend their events and ask for your details to be added to their websites.Develop a simplistic referral process into your sight loss organisation.Visit practices and eye clinics to introduce the charity and leave leaflets or posters for display in waiting areas.Host open days and invite local eye care professionals to become volunteers.Some of the following suggestions apply to everyone in your team and beyond, from service users to receptionists and sight loss professionals to CEOs, so please share far and wide as we all have the power to connect and improve services So, now is the time to start working together if patients’ lives are to be improved. There are currently 2 million people with sight loss in the UK which is expected to double by 2050 and every day 250 people start to lose their sight. The sight loss and eye care support sectors urgently need to connect and work together so that patients with visual impairments (VI) receive timely and efficient support at the point of suspected diagnosis and ongoing help to move forward with their lives. Seeing Beyond the Eyes – Working together to make things better for patients living with sight loss guideĪ video supported by Thea Pharmaceuticals
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