Healthcare Informatics
This document intends to provide a glossary and basic introduction to the multiple facets of healthcare informatics and provides references for further reading.
Standards and guidance
Our range of high-quality guidance helps to maintain standards in the planning, practice and commissioning of patient care. Our clinical guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations across all aspect of care or of eye conditions; Concise Practice Points make recommendations for less frequent and targeted clinical situations, succinctly describing the scientific and clinical evidence alongside expert input to enhance clinician and patient decision making. Our Commissioning guidance supports eye units to develop services to meet local population needs.
Strabismus surgery for adults in the United Kingdom: indications, evidence base and benefits
This document highlights the cost effectivesness of performing strabisums surgery on adults and the evidence against the rationing on non-clinical grounds.
Eye Care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
This document aims to provide advice and information for clinical staff who are involved in eye care in the ICU. It is primarily intended to help non-ophthalmic ICU staff to: 1.protect the eye in vulnerable patients, thus preventing ICU-related eye problems 2. identify disease affecting the eye in ITU patients, and specifically those which might need ophthalmic referral 3. deliver treatment to the eye when it is prescribed
Standards for Virtual Clinics in Glaucoma Care in the NHS Hospital Eye Service
This document provides an outline of the necessary standards fro Glaucoma virtual clinics including facilites, staffing and models of care
Advice on Commissioning of Ophthalmic Services for Children
This is a briefing document on the themes and issues relevant to commissioning of ophthalmic services for children, on behalf of the Paediatric Sub-committee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Resumption of Paediatric Ophthalmology Services During COVID-19
This document provides a guide to assist hospital departments to manage their paediatric ophthalmology service during the pandemic.
Restarting and Redesigning of Cataract Pathways in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
This document provides generic guidance on the restarting of cataract services. Individual eye departments should tailor this guidance, taking into account their staffing, infrastructure, the needs of their local population as well as the expectations of local commissioners and regional NHS organisations.
RCOphth UKEGS Glaucoma management plans during recovery phase of COVID
This guidance provides pragmatic advice on recommencing care for glaucoma patients based on clinical expertise from a variety of clinical settings around the UK. The scope of this document is to provide advice for the ‘recovery phase’ rather than the acute lockdown phase. We anticipate this phase will cover perhaps the next 6 months or so. Some of the points will be germane to longer term ‘post COVID-19’ services.
Guidance on restarting Medical Retina Services
This guidance has been developed by a group of medical retinal specialists as requested by the RCOphth in response to the pandemic to provide generic guidance on the resumption of medical retina services. Individual eye departments should tailor this guidance, taking into account their staffing, their infrastructure, the needs of their local population as well as the expectations of local commissioners and regional NHS organisations.