Latest News from Hampshire LOC – 16 May 2025

17 May 2025

Four Seasons Spring/Summer 2025 Educational Evening – Tuesday 3 June 2025

The Four Seasons Spring/Summer 2025 Educational Evening on Tuesday June 3rd will be held at Southampton General Hospital (UHS) Lecture Theatre 2, South Academic Block from 6.p.m. and catering has been generously sponsored by Santen Pharmaceutical. (Please note that a Sapphire Eyecare event that clashed with this date is now cancelled and will be rescheduled shortly)

This meeting will be rapid fire event with 7 speakers each having a 20-minute slot, so late arrivals will still have plenty to hear. To register please join the Four Seasons Optometry Education Facebook group and/or email – lasheyecare@gmail.com

Session 1:
6.30 Radhika Krishnan (med ret/uveitis) – “The Missing Piece”
6.50 Sarith Makuloluwe (plastics/orbit) – “More Than Meets The Eye”
7.10 Steve Lash (VR/cataract) – “Cataract Surgery is Easy and Never Goes Wrong (ish)

Session 2:
7.30 Deb Sahu (macula) – “Refer or Monitor”
7.50 Stehanie West (paeds/OMB) – “The Twist in the Tale”
8.10 Aris Konstantopoulos (Cornea/Refractive) – “Lasers or Lens”
8.30 Nishani Amerasinghe (Glaucoma) – “MIGS & Eagles”

Self-certifying CPD points will be available and full instructions of the very simple process will be given on the night. You will need to make a few short notes to claim your points on MyGOC

Hampshire LOC AGM, 11 June 2025 from 18:30hrs

Location – Winchester Hotel & Spa, Worthy Lane, Winchester SO23 7AB

Google Maps – here
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The Hampshire LOC AGM taking place on Wednesday 11 June 2025

This meeting is open to all Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS GOS Contractors and associated Optometrists, Dispensing Opticians and Contact Lens Opticians

To reserve your place at this year’s event please click – here

The evening will commence with registration and hot buffet from 18:30 – 19:15.

The AGM will commence at 1915hrs.

The AGM will be followed by a lecture ‘There’s more to AMD than Wet or Dry’ provided by our guest speaker, Mr Nish Srikantha MBBS PhD PGcertHE FRCOphth, Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in Glaucoma, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Committee Nominations:

There are vacancies on the management committee for two Contractor and two Performer representatives. Your support for the committee would be greatly appreciated and you can develop new skills along the way

If you wish to be nominated for a position on the Committee; you should complete the Nomination paper available – here

Please return completed nomination papers by Friday 16th May 2025 to –  isilk@hampshireloc.org.uk

Attendance:

Tickets for this event are free. Places are limited so registration is a must. To register for attendance please go to the ticket source page – here

Proxy/Postal Votes:

If you are unable to attend and require a proxy or postal vote for committee elections, acceptance of accounts and accounts scrutineers 2024-25 please email Ian Silk as above, by Monday 19 May 2025

All papers for the AGM will be sent out week commencing 19 May 2025

Cataract Single Point of Access – LOC Feedback Request

Hampshire LOC are interested in gathering feedback from performers and contractors across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight following the ICB initiated implementation of the SPoA (Single Point of Contact) for cataract referrals using AI program “Dora” with the company “Ufonia”

The form does not require your name or practice address, and responding email addresses will not be captured to ensure anonymity. If you would like to discuss feedback with the LOC please contact us directly via email: isilk@hampshireloc.org.uk

We ask that NO patient identifiable data is shared anywhere in direct feedback or on this form please

The data will be used from feedback to share our members’ views with Ufonia, the ICB and other stakeholders

The feedback form is available – here