Resumption of Paediatric Ophthalmology Services During COVID-19
This document provides a guide to assist hospital departments to manage their paediatric ophthalmology service during the pandemic.
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.
Restarting and Redesigning of Cataract Pathways in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
This document provides generic guidance on the restarting of cataract services. Individual eye departments should tailor this guidance, taking into account their staffing, infrastructure, the needs of their local population as well as the expectations of local commissioners and regional NHS organisations.
RCOphth UKEGS Glaucoma management plans during recovery phase of COVID
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 so. Some of the points will be germane to longer term ‘post COVID-19’ services.
Guidance on restarting Medical Retina Services
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 as the expectations of local commissioners and regional NHS organisations.
Reopening and redeveloping ophthalmology services during Covid recovery – Interim guidance
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 ophthalmology care.
Prioritisation of ophthalmic procedures
This guidance has been developed to aid ophthalmic services in the prioritisation of surgical procedures being carried out within their departments. It is intended to allow services to plan beyond the lockdown period into the phase of reopening of services when more medium urgency and elective care will be provided but where there is likely still to be restricted capacity and a greater need to prioritise.
Prioritisation of ophthalmic outpatient appointments
This guidance has been developed to aid ophthalmic services in the prioritisation of their outpatient capacity of their departments.
Cataract surgery guidelines for Post COVID-19 pandemic
This document provides guidance to assist re-opening of cataract services following the COVID lockdown
Use of non-contact tonometry to measure intra-ocular pressure during COVID-19
Advice was given by both The College of Optometrists and The Royal College of Ophthalmologists to avoid the use of air puff tonometry in all clinical settings. This document provides a consensus on the risks of non-contact tonometry and advises suitable usage during the COVID-19 pandemic.