Dry eye disease is a global public-health problem with significant impact on quality of life. Serum Eye Drops (SED) contain many nutritional factors that aid therapeutics. Across the NHS There is variation in practice, inequality of access to SED service and no regulated monitoring outcome. This guideline sets out defined criteria for the use of Serum Eye Drops, monitoring of clinical and patient-reported outcomes to improve patient morbidity and standards of care.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) accredited the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ content development process as a mark of quality between 2015 and 2024 before closing its accreditation programme in July 2024.