{"id":405,"date":"2022-08-14T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T09:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/?p=405"},"modified":"2022-08-14T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T09:27:50","slug":"updated-dry-eye-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/2022\/08\/14\/updated-dry-eye-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated Dry Eye Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2022 updated guidance was issued to primary care health providers giving information on the treatment for dry eye. In the attached document you will see guidance issued around when to refer to secondary care as well as which products are likely to be being recommended by GP&#8217;s or pharmacists. You will note it remains policy for patients to purchase dry eye products over the counter and GP&#8217;s are only advised to issue a prescription related to dry eye where over the counter solutions have been ineffective, where the dry eye is moderate to severe, or where the dry eye is a result of a chronic condition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2022\/08\/Dry-eye-guidance-version-5-March-2022-editRM.pdf\">Dry-eye-guidance-version-5-March-2022.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2022 updated guidance was issued to primary care health providers giving information on the treatment for dry eye. In the attached document you will see guidance issued around when to refer to secondary care as well as which products are likely to be being recommended by GP&#8217;s or pharmacists. You will note it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/2022\/08\/14\/updated-dry-eye-guidance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updated Dry Eye Guidance&#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-405","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\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}