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Contents Building on our success

– better eye care for all

Building on our success – better eye care for all 3
Primary eye care in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and
Protecting and advancing core primary eye
care services 8 Wales is recognised as one of the world’s most advanced eye care
systems. This is a major achievement, of which we should be proud.
Supporting enhanced primary eye care services 12
Primary eye care providers are at the heart of this success.
The future has already begun – see what it means 18 They have invested personal resources over many decades in
training and education, new technologies and models of care
Maximising the positive impact of innovation and
technology for patients 26 to meet changing population needs.

Developing and training the future primary As a key pillar of the wider primary care system, they employ the
eye care workforce 28 largest qualified eye care workforce in the four nations and are at
the heart of every community caring for the population’s vision and
Eye care regulation 30 eye health.

Our route map 33
Protecting the foundations of the eye
health system

The bedrock of the UK eye health system is the sight test.
Legislated for in the Opticians Act, it provides a universal eye health
assessment, case-finding and vision correction service from which
all other eye care services flow, including ophthalmology. As a
result, no child or adult in the UK needs to suffer uncorrected vision
or its impacts, and asymptomatic sight-threatening diseases can
be detected early.
These are all significant achievements which we should celebrate.
FODO is committed to protecting and advancing these benefits
as a public good so that service users, the NHS and taxpayers
continue to benefit from all that has gone before.

Primary Eye Care Audiology
Pharmacy
GP
Dentist

2 FODO UK The future of primary eye care – principles and priorities 3