Somerset Surgical Services Post-Cataract Service: Consultant-Led Event
7 June 2024
Somerset Surgical Services
Post-Cataract Service: Consultant-Led Event
Dear Colleagues,
The Somerset Surgical Services Post-Cataract Service is now live and discharging patients onto Opera. Please log into your practice dashboard on Opera daily to manage any patients discharged to your practice.
Consultant-led event
We would like to invite you to an online event on Thursday 13th June at 18.30-19.30.This will be an opportunity to meet the team at Somerset Surgical Services, hear a clinical talk by Mrs Justyna Hustler, Consultant Ophthalmologist and to ask any questions you may have about the service.
Please register here.
Providing the service
Already on OPERA?
To switch on the post-cataract service, practices should follow the guidance linked here to add the Post Cataract service to their OPERA practice profile. Practices will need to ensure that their practitioners have uploaded the relevant WOPEC certificate to their practitioner profile so they can deliver the services. Not sure how to do this – guide linked here.
No WOPEC certification?
In order to deliver the post cataract service on OPERA optometrists must completed the WOPEC Cataract accreditation. Please contact your LOC a WOPEC code.
N.B. All optometrists wishing to provide this service will need to have a valid Adult & Child safeguarding certificate and Enhanced DBS certificate uploaded to their Opera profile. There is a guide on how to do this here.
Not signed up to OPERA?
If the Practice as not registered on the OPERA platform to date, please read the guide linked here and onboard your practice. The practice will need to complete this process and be approved by PES. Once this has been completed, they can then register their practitioners to enable service delivery using this guidance.
Further Information
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us via the OPERA blue speech bubble in the right-hand corner of the OPERA Screen, or alternatively email onboarding@primaryeyecare.co.uk
Kind Regards
Avon LOC and Primary Eyecare Services
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