Commissioning Guide for Glaucoma 2016
This guidance is a resource to assist commissioners, clinicians and managers deliver high quality and evidence and outcome-based glaucoma services across England and beyond.
Standards & 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.
Quality standard for people with sight loss and dementia in an ophthalmology department 2015
Many patients who attend ophthalmology departments also have dementia. This quality standard has been developed to help ophthalmology departments provide high quality care for these patients. It addresses staff training, support to participate in decisions about care, the design of clinical areas, waiting times and appointment durations, provision of information, assessment of vision and referral for support.
Eye Care for Adults with Learning Disabilities 2015
This ophthalmic service guidance provides advice on how to appropriately design services so that they are suitable for patients with learning disabilities and highlights some solutions to the difficulties that a service will need to overcome.
Macular Hole Data Set 2015
This document describes a proposed data set for macular hole surgery. The data set has been composed by a subcommittee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists Informatics and Audit Sub-committee, comprising a representative selection of experts in vitreoretinal surgery working in different healthcare environments across the UK.
Quality Standards for Services for Patients with Learning Disabilities 2014
A quality improvement tool which can be used to assess the quality of a service and provide a snapshot audit of a department.
Sustainability in Ophthalmology
Global resources are finite; as this becomes more apparent and the consequences of global warming start to affect more of the world’s population the concept of sustainability in healthcare is becoming more important. Ophthalmology is no exception and this paper has been created by a group of people from a wide variety of disciplines to inform, guide, provoke thought and offer practical solutions to some of the sustainability issues within ophthalmology.
Abusive Head Trauma and the Eye in Infancy
This guideline covers the clinical presentation, differential daignosis and potential controversies with assigning retinal findings to abusive head injury.
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.
Guidelines for the Management of Strabismus in Childhood
This guideline is designed for ophthalmologists managing children with strabismus.