Diagnostic Pathway following Child Vision Screening
This document lays out the recommended pathway for units to diagnose children who have undergone the child visual screening.
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.
Commissioning Guidance Process Manual
This manual covers the process of how the RCOphth develops commissioning guidance including guidance development group recruitment, writing process and peer review.
Ophthalmology Global Trigger Tool
An audit tool which can be used to assess the quality and safety of an eye clinic.
Healthcare Informatics
This document intends to provide a glossary and basic introduction to the multiple facets of healthcare informatics and provides references for further reading.
Strabismus surgery for adults in the United Kingdom: indications, evidence base and benefits
This document highlights the cost effectivesness of performing strabisums surgery on adults and the evidence against the rationing on non-clinical grounds.
Emergency eye care in hospital eye units and secondary care
This document provides consensus guidance on good practice for urgent and emergency secondary ophthalmic care. Principles for such care delivered in the community are briefly outlined at the end of the document.
Eye Care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
This document aims to provide advice and information for clinical staff who are involved in eye care in the ICU. It is primarily intended to help non-ophthalmic ICU staff to: 1.protect the eye in vulnerable patients, thus preventing ICU-related eye problems 2. identify disease affecting the eye in ITU patients, and specifically those which might need ophthalmic referral 3. deliver treatment to the eye when it is prescribed
Standards for Virtual Clinics in Glaucoma Care in the NHS Hospital Eye Service
This document provides an outline of the necessary standards fro Glaucoma virtual clinics including facilites, staffing and models of care
Advice on Commissioning of Ophthalmic Services for Children
This is a briefing document on the themes and issues relevant to commissioning of ophthalmic services for children, on behalf of the Paediatric Sub-committee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists