Sustainable cataract surgery
Guidance to help eye care teams make cataract surgery more sustainable - without compromising patient care.
Standards and guidance
Our range of high-quality guidance helps to maintain standards in the planning, practice and commissioning of patient care. Our clinical guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations across all aspect of care or of eye conditions; Concise Practice Points make recommendations for less frequent and targeted clinical situations, succinctly describing the scientific and clinical evidence alongside expert input to enhance clinician and patient decision making. Our Commissioning guidance supports eye units to develop services to meet local population needs.
Joint Care? Report on the care received by children & young people diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) recently published findings from a national enquiry into JIA care. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists supports the report’s eight recommendations, and notes a role for UK ophthalmologists in supporting the delivery of some of these recommendations.
Idiopathic Full Thickness Macular Holes
Clinical guideline on idiopathic full thickness macular holes. This guideline aims to evaluate and summarise the clinical evidence relating to the management of people with iFTMH, that can be used nationally and internationally to benefit patients.
Referral pathways for adult ocular tumours
This document provides advice to clinicians on referring suspected ocular oncology cases to the nationally designated ocular oncology centres.
Professional Standards for Refractive Surgery
This document is targeted at surgeons and health care professionals involved in the care of patients undergoing refractive surgery. We emphasise throughout that surgeons are ultimately responsible for the safe delivery of patient care.
Clinical datasets
RCOphth datasets recommending the variables to be collected and standardisation of data content, meaning and format for electronic use. Once approved, EMR systems will need to conform to this standard.
Workforce: Prevalence of eye conditions
Best available data on incidence and prevalence for over 200 eye conditions, grouped by subspecialty
Advisory Appointments Committees and Job Plans
Advisory Appointment Committees, or AACs, are recruitment panels used when hiring consultants and specialty doctors in Trusts across the UK. The College works with Trusts and other NHS bodies to approve job descriptions and send a volunteer College adviser to provide College guidance on the suitability of the applicants for appointment. Here you can find information about becoming an AAC representative and what Trusts need to provide to the College for recruitment.
Diabetic Retinopathy Guidelines
The aim of the guidelines is to provide evidence-based, clinical guidance for the best management of different aspects of diabetic eye disease.