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Is everyone in your practice learning disability and autism aware?

  The Health and Social Care Act 2022 has made it a requirement of all CQC regulated health and care providers that all their staff – clinical and administrative – receive mandatory learning disability and autism awareness training by people with lived experience. Health Education England has developed the Oliver McGowan mandatory learning disability and …

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13 February 2024

Berkshire LOC CPD Event – 5th of March

Berkshire LOC CPD Evening Join us for an exciting evening of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) at the Berkshire LOC CPD Evening. This in-person event will take place on Tue March 5th 2024, 5:30 – 9:00pm at the Wokingham Cricket Club. Our event aims to provide a relaxed and informal setting for eye care professionals to …

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3 February 2024

REGO – returned referrals update

Dear Colleagues, As you are now aware BOB ICB area has transitioned to using REGO as its chosen referral platform for Optometrist to make referrals directly to the patients’ hospital of choice. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your hard work in supporting the transition across to this new platform. One …

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2 February 2024

The Eyes Have It

The Eyes Have It is a partnership of Macular Society, Fight for Sight / Vision Foundation, RNIB, Association of Optometrists, The Royal College of Ophthalmologists and Roche Products Ltd. Roche has funded the activities of the partnership. The partnership works collaboratively across the eye care sector to advocate for and champion improvements to patient care …

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15 January 2024

REGO new feature – Summary Care Record

  08 January 2024 Dear Colleague, We are writing to you to inform you of an upgrade feature to the REGO referral system which will allow a patient’s summary care record to be attached to your referral. Hospital consultants have requested this feature, to provide better care and treatment of your patients and to speed …

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8 January 2024

Frimley Trust Post Cataract Service – Now live

Please see update regarding the Post Cataract Service at Frimley Park Hospital from PES: 08/01/2024 Frimley Trust Post-Cataract Service now live.   Dear colleagues,   Frimley Trust will be transferring patients through Opera for post-operative assessment as of this week.   Please check your Opera practice dashboard every day to contact and book in patients …

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8 January 2024

Flu and COVID-19 vaccinations for eligible frontline health and social care staff

          Thank you for your continued commitment to all routine and seasonal vaccination programmes, and for your work to support the offer of winter vaccines for frontline health and care professionals. All eligible frontline health and social care professionals, including clinical and non-clinical staff who have direct contact with patients, should …

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1 December 2023

Frimley Post Cataract Service – Launch Event

Monday 27th of November: Online: 6:30pm In preparation for the launch of their Post Cataract Service, Frimley Trust are inviting you to join them on Monday, 27th of November at 6:30pm to hear the about the clinical aspects of the service from the Ophthalmic Consultants. This service is scheduled to launch on the 1st of …

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16 November 2023

Frimley Health – 28th November Teams Event

Online health event: 28th of November – 6.30pm-7.30pm Frimley Health transforms eye services at Heatherwood Hospital   Hospital eye services are in high demand, almost 10% of the national NHS backlog is in ophthalmology with hundreds of thousands of patients across the country currently on the waiting list to start treatment. The eye services we …

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8 November 2023

SpaMedica Beyond Accreditation CPD Event – 6th of December

Please see invite below from SpaMedica: Good afternoon We have an exciting event coming up! Wednesday 6th December we are hosting a beyond accreditation event at our Wokingham hospital, RG41 2QJ for all Optometrists and Dispensing opticians. This will be a great way to show you the ways in which SpaMedica work, the patient’s journey, …

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6 November 2023

LOCSU Latest News

LOCSU Says Farewell to Advancement Leads, Bobby Fida and Alvaro Borges

The LOCSU team are sad to say farewell to two of our advancement leads at the end of July.

24 July 2024

Save the Date: Regional Optical Conferences Are Coming to You!

This November, LOCSU is going on the road again with seven Regional Optical Conferences.

15 July 2024

GOC’s Business Registrant Survey 2024

The GOC recently carried out a survey to understand more about the businesses it regulates and the issues they face.

1 July 2024

LOCSU Hosts Popular Time Management Bitesize Training Course

This month, LOCSU hosted two ‘Time Mastery: Seeing Clearly Through Efficient Time Management’ training sessions, as part of our series of bitesize training sessions.

28 June 2024

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