Standards & 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.

Principles for the restarting of elective care services: Personal protective equipment (PPE) and Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGP) principles for ophthalmology

As we all restart our elective services and remodel them there are many challenges and new concerns as well as those which were particularly worrying during the peak of the pandemic. These pricniples provide a foundation for clinical teams to decide appropraite PPE for a breadth of ophthlamic procedures depending on the COVID risk of their pathways.

COVID-19 Urgent Eyecare Service specification (CUES)

Developed in collaboration with the NHS, RCOphth and The College of Optometrists, CUES provides commissioning specification in the management of emergency eye care in the community, ensuring that access to care in the community is managed effectively and that only high-risk patients are appropriately referred into ophthalmology eye service.

Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Retinopathy Monitoring Guideline and Recommendations Exec Summary 2020

Hydroxychloroquine is a medicine that is effective in treating various long-term inflammatory disorders of the joints and skin.

Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Retinopathy Monitoring Guideline: Lay Summary 2020

Hydroxychloroquine is a medicine that is effective in treating various long-term inflammatory disorders of the joints and skin.

Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Retinopathy Monitoring Guideline and Recommendations 2020

Hydroxychloroquine is a medicine that is effective in treating various long-term inflammatory disorders of the joints and skin.

Eye Drops Instillation by Unregistered Health Care Professionals for use within NHS Ophthalmic Services

The aim of this document is to provide a framework for ophthalmic services to facilitate the administration of necessary and appropriate eye drops by unregistered health professionals to patients under the care of the ophthalmic department. It outlines how this is possible and legal within the currently legal and regulatory systems.

Immediate Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery

Covid 19 rapid advice and guidance regarding Immediate Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS) and how ISBCS can be used to limit patient's exposure to the hospital environment

Glaucoma Risk Stratification Tool

A clinical tool for classification of patients with glaucoma into strata of risk for significant future sight loss and an estimate of resource requirement for managing the patient.

Measuring Levels of Harm in an Ophthalmic Setting

In this document we have developed a list of patient outcomes and associated consequence categories which aim to help guide the assessment of patient harm for ophthalmology patients