Audit and data
All practising ophthalmic clinicians should be actively involved in clinical audit of their own and their service’s care. Find out how this data is used.
Our policy priorities
Our policy work is developed in consultation with members and partners in the eye health sector. We aim to influence public policy to maintain high standards of care and outcomes for patients and a workforce needed to meet that care.
COVID-19 Urgent Eyecare Service specification (CUES)
Developed in collaboration with the NHS, RCOphth and The College of Optometrists, CUES provides commissioning specification in the management of emergency eye care in the community, ensuring that access to care in the community is managed effectively and that only high-risk patients are appropriately referred into ophthalmology eye service.
Principles for the restarting of elective care services: Personal protective equipment (PPE) and Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGP) principles for ophthalmology
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 […]
Use of non-contact tonometry to measure intra-ocular pressure during COVID-19
At the beginning of the current COVID-19 crisis, there was significant uncertainly about what ophthalmic procedures would fulfil the Public Health England (PHE) criteria for an aerosol generating procedure (AGP) as the guidance from PHE did not address every specialty in detail. Phacoemulsification surgery and air puff tonometry were thought to pose a potential risk […]
Cataract surgery guidelines for Post COVID-19 pandemic
This document provides guidance to assist re-opening of cataract services following the COVID lockdown