The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic changes to the provision of medical services within the UK and has caused a reduction in ophthalmic services being provided to reduce the spread of the disease. This guidance has been developed to aid ophthalmic services in the prioritisation of their outpatient capacity of their departments. The majority of […]

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused dramatic changes to the provision of medical services within the UK and efforts to reduce the spread of infection have caused a reduction in ophthalmic services being provided. This guidance has been developed to aid ophthalmic services in the prioritisation of surgical procedures being carried out within their departments. It […]

This document aims to support decision making and, where possible, provide guidance on how to reopen ophthalmology services after the Covid pandemic lockdown. Its purpose is to support ophthalmic clinical leads, ophthalmic consultants, managers and directors of hospital eye services to plan the recovery phase whilst incorporating service transformation beneficial for long term sustainability of […]

This guidance has been developed by a group of medical retinal specialists as requested by the RCOphth in response to the pandemic to provide generic guidance on the resumption of medical retina services. Individual eye departments should tailor this guidance, taking into account their staffing, their infrastructure, the needs of their local population as well […]

This guidance provides pragmatic advice on recommencing care for glaucoma patients based on clinical expertise from a variety of clinical settings around the UK. The scope of this document is to provide advice for the ‘recovery phase’ rather than the acute lockdown phase. We anticipate this phase will cover perhaps the next 6 months or […]

High flow cataract surgery needs to resume now to address the backlog and provide patients with a timely service. Failure to do so will compromise the quality of life for patients. Restoration of cataract services will require a detailed review/redesign of the whole cataract pathway to ensure a safe environment for patients and staff. This […]