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📣 Berkshire Local Optical Committee is looking for new committee members

    Want to help expand primary eyecare? Have your voice heard on issues that matter? Meet new people and learn more about the sector you work in? Benefit from career development opportunities? Your Local Optical Committee is your route to making an impact. LOCs represent the optical profession on all local general ophthalmic services …

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14 May 2023

New Chief Executive – Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB

    Dear Colleagues I am delighted to announce that Dr Nick Broughton, currently Chief Executive at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, will be joining the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) as interim Chief Executive. Nick will join the ICB in July bringing with him a wealth of experience. He …

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13 May 2023

OFNC Statement: Change of Chair and Secretary

Following the conclusion of the 2023/24 GOS fee and grants negotiating round and the successful delegation of POS functions from NHS England to ICBs, Paul Carrol (FODO) and Dr Peter Hampson (AOP) have taken over from Gordon Ilett (AOP) and David Hewlett (FODO) as OFNC chair and secretary respectively. The changes came into effect on …

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8 May 2023

CPD Webinar: 15th May

  Optometry Wales have shared information on a webinar for Optometrists, Dispensing Opticians and Contact Lens Optician: Eyelid Lesions Retinal Diseases and Visual Acuity Monday 15th May 2023 6.30-7.30pm 1 Interactive CPD Point This is now available for booking on the registration link below: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tw7IFjxHQneZDGXxBz_4Cg Please contact Debbie.O’Sullivan@Optometrywales.com for more information.

3 May 2023

SpaMedica Oxford Open and Accepting Referrals

SpaMedica are delighted to announce that our state-of-the-art Oxford eye hospital is now fully open and accepting NHS referrals for our Ophthalmology Services from all NHS England ICB areas as part of patients choice of provider. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like any more information regarding SpaMedica and/or our services. T: …

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12 April 2023

Scope Webinar: Updates in refractive surgery & glaucoma

  We are delighted to announce our next webinar event, Updates in Refractive Surgery & Glaucoma is taking place on Wednesday the 19th of April at 7pm. This event, will be chaired by Ms Aoife Doyle, who is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin and Director of the …

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7 April 2023

Scope Independent Prescriber Bursary Scheme

  Applications for the 2023 Scope Eyecare Independent Prescriber Bursary Scheme are now open. Now in its second year, this was established to support Optometrists who wish to enhance their clinical skills and qualify as Independent Prescribers. Through this new Bursary Scheme, Optometrists will be asked to submit an interesting patient case study where they …

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7 April 2023

OFNC Fees and Grants 2023/24

Please see this statement from the OFNC in response to yesterday’s government announcement of a 4.5% uplift to GOS fees and pre-reg training grants. There is no uplift to CPD grants. As always, there is much work that sits behind any announcement and OFNC have negotiated hard on behalf the profession in order to achieve the …

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24 March 2023

Ramadan Mubarak

Wishing everyone celebrating a blessed and peaceful month.   

23 March 2023

Berkshire LOC CPD Event – What a great event!

What a great event! Fantastic to see so many of our colleagues in Berkshire come to together on the 14th of March to hear from Sarah-Lucie Watson, Bruce Evans and then collaborate together for the peer review session. Big thank you to Stephen Abery for organising such an engaging evening with the LOC Berkshire committee. …

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17 March 2023