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 & JOBS

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 now have 'News & Jobs' pages on the website. If there is an event or job vacancy which you would like Shropshire optoms or DO's to know about, please send the information to website@shropshireloc.co.uk

There is currently a vacancy for a DO in Welshpool.

Locum list & LOCSU Forum

Any Shropshire performers or contractors who wish to access the Locum List or LOCSU forum through this website can apply for a username and password by sending an email to website@shropshireloc.co.uk

New Contact Details for Enhanced Services Contract Support

Please see the 'Enhanced Service Pathways' page for details.

PRIMARY & SECONDARY CARE

CHEC

CHEC are taking over the ophthalmology services currently offered by the Practice. 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 moved

Adult ophthalmology outpatient appointments and the urgent eye clinic for adults and paediatric patients have moved to the Copthorne Building at RSH from Monday 26 June 2017.

Paediatric ophthalmology outpatient appointments have been available again at both sites since October 2017.

The services can be accessed in the same way as currently and all existing telephone numbers will move to the new department.

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.