Webinar - UK Eye Care Data Hub: forecasting eye care workforce and disease prevalence - 25 February 2025

Virtual session

The UK Eye Care Data Hub is a dashboard that has been developed to estimate the current eye care workforce and eye disease prevalence or incidence, and to model future trends over time. Find out more about the UK Eye Care Data Hub and access the dashboard.

In this webinar, you will learn how this new tool will help:

commissioners of eye care services across the UK to understand the needs of the patients and the current and future workforce available to meet those needs
optometrists and other eye care professionals to see where there may be opportunities for using their expertise
employers and commissioners to identify priorities for future workforce education, training and development

Raymond Curran

Raymond is Head of Ophthalmic Services within the Strategic Planning & Performance Group of the Department of Health NI. Trained as an optometrist in Birmingham and London, Raymond combined general ophthalmic services practice with sessional hospital positions in Western HSC Trust.

In 1997 he was appointed NI’s first (sessional) HSC Board ophthalmic adviser (Western) leading to his current substantive HSCB appointment in 2013.

In this role he is Northern Ireland regional lead for contracting General Ophthalmic Services, and commissioning of secondary care ophthalmology.

He has been involved with several large scale change programmes, most recently with the lead role in the establishment of prototype models for Daycase Elective Care Centres for cataract.