Please see the protocol documents for various pathways available to patients. Most are for patients with a registered GP outside of the Liverpool region but Liverpool practices can still register to provide the service.
- Glaucoma Repeat Reading (GRR): Liverpool, Sefton, Southport and Formby, St Helens and Halton.
GRR_Pathway_and_Protocols
GECF and GRR pathway and referral guidance
- Glaucoma Enhanced Case Finding Service (GECF): Sefton. (Will be utilised where patients have been found with multiple suspicious clinical signs and/or risk factors of glaucoma (with or without raised IOPs and/or suspicious visual fields). This builds on the current Glaucoma Repeat Readings (GRR) service allows for repeating IOP measurements with contact tonometry or the repeat of suspicious visual fields with threshold perimetry, for patients whose sight test screening shows IOPs/fields as an anomaly, putting them at higher risk of glaucoma.)
GECF n CUES MECS Sefton Launch Sept 23
Sefton GECF Pathway and Protocol
- CUES/MECS: Sefton, Southport and Formby, St Helens and Halton and Knowsley. Patients in Liverpool can attend St Paul’s eye emergency department for any ocular emergency. Practices not currently delivering the CUES/MECS service can direct patients with eye symptoms to www.primaryeyecare.co.uk where the patient can enter their postcode and find their nearest delivering practice.
CUES MECS Sefton Pathway and Protocols
CUESMECS triage
CUES-Pathway-and-protocols
MECS_CUES sight test guidance – OPERA
- Pre Cataract Assessment: Sefton, Southport and Formby, St Helens and Halton.
Pre-Cataract-Pathway-and-Protocols
- Post Cataract Assessment: This service is not GP dependant. It is for any patient seen at Aintree , St Paul’s or Spa Medica.
POCS-pathway-and-protocols-Jan-2023
- People with Learning Disabilities: This pathway is running in Liverpool.
If a practice is interested in providing any of these services, what should they do?
A practice should check they have an accredited practitioner, and that this practitioner has uploaded these documents to their practitioner profile on OPERA. Once this has been completed, the practice should request to deliver the service by using the General > My Services option on OPERA.
If you have any further queries about these services, please email chair@liverpoolloc.com. Otherwise, feel free to contact the below mentioned email addresses or by contacting on Opera using the blue bubble / hello@referral.support.
Rebecca Ireland and Sarah Lowry – Clinical Leads
rebecca.ireland@primaryeyecare.co.uk
sarah.lowry@primaryeyecare.co.uk
Hena Akhtar – Contracts and Service Lead