{"id":1463,"date":"2025-07-09T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:01:53","slug":"latest-news-from-hampshire-loc-04-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/2025\/07\/09\/latest-news-from-hampshire-loc-04-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News from Hampshire LOC &#8211; 04 July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sapphire Eyecare Summer CPD Event &#8211; 21 July 2025<\/h2>\n<p>EXCLUSIVE EVENT<\/p>\n<p>21st July 2025, arrival from 6:30pm<\/p>\n<p>The evening is visionary, educational, relaxed and fun so please do join us in the stunning grounds of Winchester Cathedral for a Summer BBQ<\/p>\n<p>Sapphire is delighted to invite you to for An Evening with the Experts; Ophthalmology Insights for your Practice in the stunning Pavilion at Winchester Cathedral in Winchester.<\/p>\n<p>To reserve your place email: <a href=\"mailto:events@sapphire-eyecare.co.uk\">events@sapphire-eyecare.co.uk<\/a> with your name and GOC number<\/p>\n<p>Further Information &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/n2qb7mzhwkvwzm2zswmy7\/Winchester-Cathedral_Print.pdf?rlkey=1p7z2f5lz9abesl2xxob6f3h6&amp;e=1&amp;dl=0\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Goodbye and Welcome<\/h2>\n<p>As you read this newsletter Ian Silk is 4 days into his retirement<\/p>\n<p>I (Ian) would just like to thank everybody who has a connection with the LOC for the support you have shown and hope will continue to support your LOC<\/p>\n<p>Now, more than ever is it important to be active and working alongside the LOC following the disruption to contracts earlier this year. Out of the embers come new beginnings and yes I have seen a few of those since I first became involved with the NHS back in 2002 and latterly with the LOC since 2015<\/p>\n<p>The LOC has a new Business Manager &#8211; Carolyn Hudd, with experience of working with LOCs and I would like to welcome her to my role.. I hope you will be equally supportive of Carolyn as she gets to grips with the nuances of Hampshire LOC and the wider Hampshire community<\/p>\n<p>You can contact Carolyn via email <a href=\"mailto:chudd@hampshireloc.org.uk\">chudd@hampshireloc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best wishes to you all and thank you for a fun few years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sapphire Eyecare Summer CPD Event &#8211; 21 July 2025 EXCLUSIVE EVENT 21st July 2025, arrival from 6:30pm The evening is visionary, educational, relaxed and fun so please do join us in the stunning grounds of Winchester Cathedral for a Summer BBQ Sapphire is delighted to invite you to for An Evening with the Experts; Ophthalmology &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/2025\/07\/09\/latest-news-from-hampshire-loc-04-july-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest News from Hampshire LOC &#8211; 04 July 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":766,"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-1463","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\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}