Principles for the restarting of elective care services: Personal protective equipment (PPE) and Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGP) principles for ophthalmology

  • 02 Jan 2021
  • RCOphth and GIRFT

As we all restart our elective services and remodel them there are many challenges and new concerns as well as those which were particularly worrying during the peak of the pandemic. These principles provide a foundation for clinical teams to decide appropriate PPE for a breadth of ophthalmic procedures depending on the COVID risk of their pathways.