Welcome to the Shropshire Local Optical Committee Website
Welcome to the Shropshire Local Optical Committee Website
Welcome to the Shropshire Local Optical Committee Website
Welcome to the Shropshire Local Optical Committee Website

Shropshire LOC

This website is designed to be of interest to both the public and the profession.

We hope that it will be useful and informative.

If you need further information about the LOC, please contact in the first instance either:

Paul Cottrell (Chairman) email chair@shropshireloc.co.uk

or admin@shropshireloc.co.uk

and follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Shropshireloc/

For website enquiries, please email website@shropshireloc.co.uk

SHROPSHIRE NEWS

AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the Shropshire LOC will be held on Thursday 20th June at the Wroxeter Hotel, Wroxeter, SY5 6PH. There will be an accompanying CET event and a hot buffet. The event is open to all NHS performers and contractors within Shropshire. There are four committee positions on offer for potential members and elections will be held during the evening.

Shropshire LOC work hard on behalf of NHS contractors and performers and the AGM gives us a chance to keep you up-to-date on the most recent activities as well as providing a platform to receive and ideas, suggestions and hear of any issues faced

Mailing List

Shropshire LOC send out regular information about CET events, LOCSU news and NHS matters of interest to contractors and performers via e-mail. If you have stopped receiving these or and/or wish to start then please e-mail admin@shropshireloc.co.uk with your details.

WET AMD REFERRALS

As of 1st October SaTH have removed the wet AMD fax referral service. Fax remains active for the Urgent Eye Clinic.

If you have successfully attained an NHS Net email address then please begin to use the new pathway. It would be helpful for all practices to have NHS Net email addresses but we understand the significant burden associated with getting one.

If you do not have an NHS Net email address then the most appropriate referral pathway is to refer VIA GP. We suggest that, for the safety of your patients, you give the patient the letter in an enveloped marked 'FOR URGENT ACTION' and advise them to take it to their GP immediately. We also advise that you concurrently fax the referral to their GP practice if they still have fax services. Click HERE for a covering letter which you can include in your referral in order to further inform the GP. Other possible referral routes are via UEC, though we expect that referrals will be rejected at telephone triage, or via A&E.

We advertise jobs on the website. If there a job vacancy which you would like Shropshire optoms or DO's to know about, please send the information to website@shropshireloc.co.uk

PRIMARY & SECONDARY CARE

CHEC

From the 1st April 2019 Community Health and Eyecare Ltd (CHEC) will administer the enhanced service pathways in Shropshire and Telford. The MECS (previously PEARS), cataract referral refinement, post-operative cataract follow-up, glaucoma repeat measures and children's pathway will be performed by sub-contractors to CHEC. Current performers and contractors should be aware of this already. If you wish to be included on the list of approved sub-contractors please contact CHEC here for further advice.

CHEC will continue to administer the ophthalmology secondary care pathway. CHEC will triage all ophthalmology referrals sent through the GP. This also means that patients whose follow-up appointments are behind schedule can be re-referred though the GP and will be offered an appointment within 7 days.

RSH eye outpatient clinics

Adult ophthalmology outpatient appointments and the urgent eye clinic for adults and paediatric patients are based in the Copthorne Building at RSH.

Paediatric ophthalmology outpatient appointments are available at both sites.

Post Cataract Appointments from Leighton Hospital, Cheshire

An opportunity has arisen to conduct post operative cataract follow ups, as we already do for our SaTH patients, for those who receive their treatment at Leighton Hospital. This is commissioned through Cheshire Primary Eyecare Company (LOC Company). Any practice interested in doing post cataract follow ups for Leighton Hospital please see information on 'post cataract' page under Practitioner Information.

Welcome to the Shropshire Local Optical Committee Website

Welcome to the Shropshire Local Optical Committee Website

Welcome to the Shropshire Local Optical Committee Website

Welcome to the Shropshire Local Optical Committee Website

Shropshire LOC

WET AMD REFERRALS

As of 1st October SaTH have removed the wet AMD fax referral service. Fax remains active for the Urgent Eye Clinic.

If you have successfully attained an NHS Net email address then please begin to use the new pathway. It would be helpful for all practices to have NHS Net email addresses but we understand the significant burden associated with getting one.