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Our route map Support new models of enhanced primary
eye care services
We will:
FODO members deliver over 18 million eye • Improve patient access by supporting primary eye care providers to
examinations each year across the UK. When our expand the range of services they offer to meet patient needs.
members commit to change, we can make change • Call on the NHS to fund and commission enhanced services to
happen. With our members, we will continue to lead meet patient needs and to end unwarranted and unjustified
by example and work with governments and sector variation in access to vital eye care services.
partners to achieve the following goals.
Protect patient benefits and increase
patient education
Tackle preventable sight loss due to delays in care
We will:
We will: • Champion patients’ rights to choose a provider and evidence-
• Work with patient groups and other stakeholders to prevent based care for themselves and their families.
patients from suffering severe or permanent sight loss because of • Do all we can to protect patient access to affordable eyewear and
delays in care at any point in the pathway.
NHS support for visual correction for the most vulnerable and most
in need.
Protect and advance core primary eye
care services • Continue to work with charities and public health teams to ensure
the public understands the importance of eye examinations and
We will: looking after their eyes.
• Protect and support patients by advocating to preserve the • Continue to embrace equality, diversity and inclusion across the
Opticians Act and associated regulations and orders unless there is sector, including for patients, eye care practitioners, ancillary
robust evidence for change. workers, students and trainees.
• Continue to protect nationally negotiated GOS systems,
including increased fees and grants, as the fairest and most
cost-effective means of delivering high-standard first-line eye
care in all four UK nations.
• Work with health systems to tackle health inequalities by
improving access to eye care for homeless people and people
who depend on domiciliary eye care services.
• Support primary eye care providers who wish to continue
specialising only in providing world-class sight testing and case-
finding, referring patients for further care where appropriate. Audiology Primary Eye Care
Pharmacy
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