Cataract Consent Form
For adult patients with mental capacity to give valid consent to Cataract removal and new lens implant / Phacoemulsification and IOL
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.
For adult patients with mental capacity to give valid consent to Cataract removal and new lens implant / Phacoemulsification and IOL
Recommended method for providers to measure delays to follow-up care using a patient administration system (PAS) field which can submit data to NHS Digital to assess national performance, provide data for managing individual patients and services, and allow reporting to commissioners and trust executive teams.
This document is to keep members informed of developments with the UK genomics services. However, this is a very fast moving area with rapid developments driven at the national level. The information in this document is correct as at February 2020.
On occasion, healthcare organisations may have concerns regarding some aspects of delivery of an ophthalmology service or they may wish to have an objective assessment of how their service is performing. Find out what the RCOphth Service Review can do for you.
This quality standard has been developed by the RCOphth paediatric subcommittee, in conjunction with the College's Quality and Safety Group, to provide a self-assessment tool which focuses on service provision not outcomes. This is not an attempt to assess every aspect of service but try to focus on a small number of key areas. It is not expected that every clinical services will deliver every aspect as described, and the results should be used in conjunction with other methods of quality assessment to support learning and improvement.
Surgical checklists represent a relatively simple strategy for addressing surgical patient safety worldwide. The RCOphth have adapted the WHO surgical checklist for cataract surgery checklist for use within ophthalmic departments.
The Ophthalmic Special Order Products list relates to topical and oral ophthalmic agents. For injectable agents refer to Medusa injectable guide. The list is colour coded as follows: green for specials suitable for initiation by primary care; amber for specials initiated by secondary care and can be continued by primary care; red for specials prescribed by secondary care only.
Advice about performing all intravitreal injection therapy (IVT) as safely as possible, whilst supporting the requirement for innovative and efficient models of care to deal with the continuing increase in demand.
This document outlines some key principles and aims to support national programmes involved in reconfiguration of ophthalmology services for improvement such as the National Elective Care Transformation programme, Getting it Right First Time and Right Care.