This outlines a COVID-19 Urgent Eyecare Service delivered from a network of optical practices, acting as urgent eye care hubs, to support the immediate and recovery phase of the coronavirus pandemic.
The UK‘s public health bodies and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have published new guidance about personal protective equipment (PPE).
The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the provision of eye care in primary and secondary care.
The College and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists has sent the following letter to Jo Churchill MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care.
These temporary guidelines have been written to help optometrists who are conducting remote telephone/video consultations with patients.
Our guidance is aimed to help keep optometrists and their patients safe.
Our latest position statement on seeing patients in primary care during COVID-19.
The antimalarial drug may be a glimmer of hope as coronavirus takes hold across the world, if the threat of retinopathy can be managed.
A joint statement from The Royal College of Ophthalmologists and College of Optometrists