For the latest information, advice and updates, please visit our News page at https://www.loc-online.co.uk/hertfordshire-loc/news/
PCSE And GOS Voucher Information
- Voucher Values – April 2023
- Making Accurate Claims In England 2022
- Useful further information on PCSE and GOS submissions from LOCSU
- Updated Guidance on Small Glasses Supplement
- Pre-Authorisation of Adult GOS4 Guidance from NHSBSA and Template, click on “GOS 4 pre-authorisation ” on the page linked here. Further details can be found in “Making Accurate Claims”, above.
- Template for an Application for Second Voucher – to be emailed FROM A NHS.NET ADDRESS to your area team: england.optometryeast@nhs.net Further details can be found in “Making Accurate Claims”, above.
- NHS Advice to the public on help towards the cost of eye tests and vouchers
- PCSE advice and links
- Ophthalmic payment advice from the PCSE including the submitting GOS forms and avoiding rejected claims
- PCSE Contacts, Complaints and Enquiries form (phone number, address and complaint information is below the enquiry form on their page).
- Organisiation search – find your ODS code
- DSPT Organisation Search – check the NHS record of your DSPT compliance.
Guidance for Primary Eye Care
A Joint Statement has been issued by ABDO, AOP, the College and FODO, HERE regarding updated Guidance for Primary Eyecare. NHS England have also confirmed that face coverings must continue to be worn in healthcare settings, HERE.
Referral Advice and Contact Details
- E & N Herts (Lister) Urgent Eye Referral Form (To be printed, completed then scanned and emailed where possible)
- Princess Alexandra Hospital Eye Casualty Referral Form
- Referral information from Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Stort Valley MECS Information
- Cataract referral advice for those practitioners using Addenbrooke’s
- Moorfields Referrals and Eye Casualty Map
- NHS Herts and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) Cataract Surgery Information
- Wet AMD Referral Form
Princess Alexandra Hospital Referrals
We have been asked to remind practitioners that all routine referrals to the hospital should be sent to the patient’s GP in West Essex and East & North Herts, if the patient wants to be seen in PAH.
DO NOT send routine referrals to tpa-tr.ophthalmology@nhs.net This should only be used for urgent and emergency referrals once the Advice and Guidance received from one of the Hospital Consultants requests this information.
Routine referrals sent to this email address stop the patients who have urgent or emergency referrals from being triaged in a timely manner.
Domiciliary Guidance
FODO advise that The Domiciliary Eyecare Committee (DEC) has published updated guidance for domiciliary eye care providers and practitioners for the next phases of the Covid-19 pandemic. It updates guidance originally issued in June 2020 and takes account of latest knowledge about infectivity, the availability of PPE, vaccination and lateral flow testing.
Read the DEC press release HERE.
The College’s guidance on Domiciliary Care can be found HERE.