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.
Ophthalmology accounts for around 6% of all NHS procedures, with 700,000 elective admissions per year of which 400,000 are cataracts and over 95% are day cases in England. This document will concentrate on the facilities and equipment for provision of ophthalmic major surgery but will touch on requirements for minor operation (see also RCOphth Standards for intravitreal injections).
This manual covers the process of how the RCOphth develops commissioning guidance including guidance development group recruitment, writing process and peer review.
An audit tool which can be used to assess the quality and safety of an eye clinic.
This document highlights the cost effectivesness of performing strabisums surgery on adults and the evidence against the rationing on non-clinical grounds.
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
This document provides an outline of the necessary standards fro Glaucoma virtual clinics including facilites, staffing and models of care
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
This document provides a guide to assist hospital departments to manage their paediatric ophthalmology service during the 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.
