{"id":728,"date":"2026-10-09T08:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/?p=728"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:48:50","slug":"latest-news-from-dorset-loc-09-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/2026\/10\/09\/latest-news-from-dorset-loc-09-october-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News from Dorset LOC &#8211; 09 October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">World Sight Day 2026 \u2013 Thursday 10 October<\/span><\/p>\n<p>World Sight Day: Make Eye Health a Priority<\/p>\n<p>World Sight Day takes place on Thursday 10 October and is a valuable opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of regular eye examinations and good eye health.Eye care professionals play a vital role in helping patients protect their sight through early detection, timely intervention and ongoing advice. As demand for eye care services continues to grow, World Sight Day provides an excellent opportunity for practices to engage with their local communities and encourage people to prioritise their eye health.Practices may wish to use World Sight Day as a chance to promote routine sight tests, discuss the importance of healthy lifestyle choices for eye health and highlight the services available through community optometry.Together, we can help ensure more people understand the importance of looking after their vision and seeking professional advice when needed.<\/p>\n<h2>Important Reminder: Maintaining Accurate Records on OPERA<\/h2>\n<p>Review Your OPERA User Access to Protect Patient Information.<\/p>\n<p>Primary Eyecare Services has issued an important reminder to all practices regarding the management of clinician access within OPERA.Recent data security incidents have highlighted instances where patient referrals have been submitted from the incorrect practice dashboard. This can occur when clinicians, including locum optometrists, remain linked to a practice&#8217;s OPERA account after they have ceased working there.To reduce the risk of patient information being shared incorrectly and to ensure referrals are submitted from the correct practice, practices are encouraged to:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Review all clinicians currently associated with their OPERA practice account.<\/li>\n<li>Remove clinicians who no longer work at the practice as soon as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Include OPERA account reviews as part of standard staff and locum leaver processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maintaining accurate user access records is an important part of good information governance and helps safeguard patient data. Practices should ensure these checks are carried out regularly and whenever staffing changes occur.Primary Eyecare Services will be sharing further guidance with practices on how to remove users from OPERA accounts.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>For any queries relating to OPERA access and governance requirements, please refer to the guidance provided by Primary Eyecare Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Sight Day 2026 \u2013 Thursday 10 October World Sight Day: Make Eye Health a Priority World Sight Day takes place on Thursday 10 October and is a valuable opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of regular eye examinations and good eye health.Eye care professionals play a vital role in helping patients protect their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/2026\/10\/09\/latest-news-from-dorset-loc-09-october-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest News from Dorset LOC &#8211; 09 October 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/dorset-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}