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 Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Rapid Access Referral Form - August 2008
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Ophthalmology - May 2004
Ophthalmology as a Career 2009
Quality Development Programme - guidance for clinical governance in ophthalmology - 1999
Visual Standards for Driving - 1999
Continuing Medical Education - 1998
The Provision of Low Vision Care - 1998
Continuing Medical Education - 1998
Definition of the Minimum Field of Vision - 1994
Registration and Rehabilitation of The Visually Handicapped - 1994
Guidance on Job Plans - 1993
Vision and Display Screen Equipment - 1993
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Reading and the Visual System - January 2009
Statement on Visual Screening in Children and Young People
The RCOphth endorses the recommendations of the National Screening Committee with respect to Visual Screening in Childhood and Adolescence (http://www.library.nhs.uk/screening/; Health for all Children Eds. Hall, DMB, Elliman D. 4th Ed OUP). These state that all newborn infants should be examined to exclude the presence of cataract or other opacity in the ocular media, and to detect major structural congenital ocular malformations. Parents should be encouraged to report any subsequent concerns about their child's vision. The NSC recommends that all children should be screened for visual impairment between four and five years of age. This should either be conducted by orthoptists or by professionals trained and supported by orthoptists. Once such a programme is in place, the school entry vision screening programme should cease. No other preschool vision screening is supported. (Child Health Sub Group Report on vision screening - updated May 2005). The NSC has agreed with the recommendation in Health for All Children (4th edition), that screening for vision defects in 7 year old children be discontinued. No reliable evidence has been found to demonstrate the effectiveness of vision screening in school aged children (Powell C, Wedner S, Hatt S; Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 4. ART No.:CD005023)
(22nd October 2007)
Is it necessary to screen children for Ethambutol Toxicity? Updated July 2008
Guidelines for the Management of Strabismus in Childhood
Juvenile Arthritis
Review of the Ocular Side Effects of Topiramate
Management of Amblyopia
The Paediatric Subcommittee has been working with the CVI Steering Group to improve the role of the CVI system as the national source of data on the frequency and causes of visual impairment in children.
A new pilot paediatric form (paediatric CVI extended version,) has been developed which allows easier and more precise classification of paediatric eye disease and also allows international comparison of data.
Ophthalmologists are requested to complete the new form in addition to the current CVI and return them together in the usual way to The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, c/o Certifications Office, Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Road, London EC1V 2PD.
The data collected using the new form will be analysed and disseminated along with an evaluation of the performance of the new form.
Paediatric Subcommittee April 2007 Procedures for the Ophthalmologist who Suspects Child Abuse 2000
Update from the Ophthalmology Child Abuse Working Party: Royal College of Ophthalmologists
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