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NHS England – South East Optometry Team Newsletter – March 2023

Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the March 2023 edition of the NHS England – South East Optometry Commissioning Team’s quarterly newsletter. In this edition: National Patient Safety Alert Primary Care Support England (PCSE) guidance/updates Quality in Optometry (QiO) checklist Applying for a new NHSmail or Egress account User account changes to NHSmail Changes that affect your …

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24 February 2023

Latest News from Hampshire LOC – 17 February 2023

Another OSCE Success for Hampshire LOC! On 1 February 10 candidates successfully completed their WOPEC Glaucoma OSCE and 9 candidates completed their MECS OSCE. As ever we are grateful to Sasha Macken (WOPEC) and the local team of assessors for getting our local optometrists through these OSCEs. We are also very grateful to Colin Jenkins …

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18 February 2023

URGENT UPDATE – 10 February 2023

Dear Colleague, on behalf of NHS England the NHSBSA will be delivering a non-interactive CPD lecture on the recent MHRA patient safety alert (concerning the recall of NIDEK EyeCee One Pre-loaded and EyeCee One Crystal Pre-loaded inter ocular lens) and how it affects GOS in England. It will be a 30 minute lecture and will attract 0.5 …

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11 February 2023

Latest News from Hampshire LOC – 10 February 2023

Reminder – Participant recruitment for study on examination techniques for people who have had a stroke This reminder relates to a study being carried out by Hampshire Optometrist, Malcolm Maciver. The purpose of the study seeks to identify the most useful clinical procedures in visual examination post-stroke, with the aim of improving consistency of assessment, …

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11 February 2023

Latest News from Hampshire LOC – 03 February 2023

National patient safety alert: EyeCee One intraocular lenses The LOC Support Unit (LOCSU) have received a safety alert issued on EyeCee One intraocular lenses. The issue The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a patient safety alert after becoming aware of cases of increased intraocular pressure in people recently implanted with the …

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3 February 2023

Latest News from Hampshire LOC – 27 January 2023

Important Message for Contractors /Performers in North and NE Hampshire Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey LOCs are aware that Frimley Hospital Trust are discharging post cataract patients to community practices and requesting data without an agreed funded pathway being in place. This is not condoned by the LOCs and you are asked to read the LOC …

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28 January 2023

Primary Care Bulletin – 19 January 2023

New Primary Care Assurance Framework for delegated primary medical, pharmaceutical, ophthalmic and dental functions On 1 July 2022 all ICBs assumed delegated responsibility for primary medical services and some ICBs took on delegated responsibility for one or more pharmaceutical, ophthalmic, and dental functions. While ICB’s are now responsible for the delivery of these services, NHS England …

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24 January 2023

Latest News from Hampshire LOC – 20 January 2023

Optegra Online CPD Event – 25 January 2023 Optegra are hosting a dry eye and red eye CPD event on 25th January. Further details can be found here To register please click here Studying for IP Qualification? If you are an Optometrist in Hampshire and Isle of Wight currently studying for your IP qualification we …

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22 January 2023

Latest News from Hampshire LOC – 13 January 2023

Optegra Online CPD Event – 25 January 2023 Optegra are hosting a dry eye and red eye CPD event on 25th January. Further details and how to register can be found here. Studying for IP Qualification? If you are an Optometrist in Hampshire and Isle of Wight currently studying for your IP qualification we would …

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14 January 2023

Latest News from Hampshire LOC – 06 January 2023

Basingstoke Open CPD Event – 12 January 2023 CHEC invite you to CHEC Basingstoke’s face-to-face open evening and CPD event on Thursday 12th January 2023, 7pm-9pm. This will be our first event of the new year. The CPD event will be about Pre-Cataract and Post-Operative Cataract Management, and will be hosted by Imran Rahman, Consultant Ophthalmologist …

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6 January 2023

LOCSU Latest News

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

Join the LOCSU Comms Network!

Are you the comms lead for your LOC? Do you want to meet like-minded colleagues to share ideas and challenges with?

24 June 2024