LOC Support Unit Strategy

LOCSU Business Plan

The strategic direction of the LOC Support Unit is incorporated in its business plan which can be viewed as a pdf document to the right of this page.

Any comments that you may have about the Unit's  objectives and how it is progressing towards them should be directed to Richard Carswell, Acting Head of the LOC Support Unit.

LOCSU Annual Report 2008-2010

The Unit's Annual Reports for 2008 - 2010  can be viewed as a pdf document to the right of this page.

Liberating the NHS: Eye Care - Making a Reality of Equity and Excellence

This  report written by Professor Nick Bosanquet from Imperial College London was available to delegates during the recent National Optometric Conference, and can also be viewed by clicking on the attachment to the right.
It was submitted by the Optical Confederation and Imperial College as part of their responce to the White Paper Equity and Excellence - Liberating the NHS as a formal submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review 2010. It urges the new NHS Commissioning Board to commend to GP commissioning consortia, the early adoption of LOCSU's Glaucoma Referral Refinement and Ocular Hypertension Monitoring pathways - which have been hailed as 'flawless' by NICE and have been endorsed by the Joint Committee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the College of Optometrists. It is a report which covers a broad expanse of optical issues from better eye health and putting patients and the public first to constraints within secondary eye care.

Liberating the NHS Legislative framework and next steps  (December 2010)
  
A summary of the relevance  this document has to Eye Care, including how the Government has modified it's original proposals, has been drafted for the benefit of LOC members. This can be viewed under 'related files'.