NHS Wales Eye Health Care. Future Approach for Optometry Services

Summary

Our ambition from 2020 is to bring health and social care services together, designed and delivered around the needs and preferences of individuals, with a much greater emphasis on keeping people healthy and well. The challenges, which the Welsh Government and NHS Wales are addressing together, will be further enriched through broader and deeper relationships built up and strengthened by the clinical team. Across all eye care pathways, clinical teams must work together seamlessly utilising their full skillset and working in new and innovative ways. Change happens over time and does not come to fruition quickly or easily, however, there is a strong sense of shared values and ownership across the clinical team. As such this document has been produced in collaboration with all key stakeholders for eye care in Wales including; the Welsh Government, NHS Wales, Health Education and Improvement Wales, the Welsh Optometric Committee, Optometry Wales, the College of Optometrists and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in Wales.