{"id":947,"date":"2024-01-19T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/?p=947"},"modified":"2024-01-19T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:58:59","slug":"latest-news-from-hampshire-loc-19-january-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/2024\/01\/19\/latest-news-from-hampshire-loc-19-january-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News from Hampshire LOC &#8211; 19 January 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Frimley Post Cataract Service Goes Live &#8211; 08 January 2024<\/h2>\n<p>Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>Frimley Trust began transferring patients through OPERA for post-operative assessment as of 11 January 2024.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please check your OPERA practice dashboard every day to contact and book in patients that have been transferred to your practice for post-operative assessment.<\/li>\n<li>Patients will be transferred directly to your practice through OPERA, there is no facility for the practice to manually add patients to OPERA within this pathway.<\/li>\n<li>The slides from the launch event are attached &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/9f54a2d22e467e559c9cffe98\/files\/3b816624-21a6-80cd-5bcb-478021ea1eb7\/Slides_from_Frimley_Trust_post_op_launch_event_November_2023_1_.pdf\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Please visit our help pages for information on the pathway and protocols for the Post-Cataract Service, how to accept and book a patient and how to complete the clinical assessment, sending the outcome information or referral to the Trust &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/help.optom-referrals.org\/category\/329-cataract-services\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Please remember that while most patients will choose to be seen at their referring practice, if the patient has been referred by a non-accredited practice, they will be asked to choose an alternative accredited practice to attend for their post-operative assessment.<\/li>\n<li>Please only reject patients back to the surgical provider under the following circumstances:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>They have already had their post-operative assessment at the hospital due to a complication.<\/li>\n<li>In line with the Fail To Attend\/Fail To Engage policies which can be found &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/help.optom-referrals.org\/article\/380-failed-to-engage-fte-did-not-attend-dna-was-not-brought-policy\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If a patient wishes to be seen by an alternative accredited practice, the patient can be transferred to the other practice directly through Opera, but please call the other practice to confirm before doing this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">We would encourage all practices who refer patients to Frimley Trust for cataract surgery to become accredited to provide the service, so that their referred patients can be transferred back to them for post-operative assessment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the practice is not yet accredited, there is information on how to get started in the attached presentation &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/help.optom-referrals.org\/category\/235-getting-started\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Help is available &#8211;<br \/>\nSearch our help centre &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/help.optom-referrals.org\/\">here<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br \/>\nUse the blue help bubble on the <\/span>OPERA\u00a0login page<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.optom-referrals.org\/\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Or, email <\/span><u style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><a href=\"mailto:hello@refferal.support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-linkindex=\"6\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\">hello@refferal.support<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Sapphire Eye Care CPD Webinar &#8211; 25 January at 6:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>The launch of Sapphire Eye Care on Opera and CPD event delivered by Prof Luff on combined Phaco and Vitrectomy surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Further information available &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/2ae0weld25wgga6cpvk1y\/Sapphire-Opera-Webinar.pdf?rlkey=gwzfha2601feg87ayctm95nc7&amp;dl=0\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Registration &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_TRGua8YTSpmBvDKB8xgmOg#\/registration\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Optegra &#8211; Hampshire Hospital CPD Event Tuesday 20th February<br \/>\nfrom 6.30pm &#8211; &#8220;Come Diagnose With Me: Diabetes&#8221; \u2013 presented by Mr Steve Lash<\/h2>\n<p>Please see the invitation for upcoming in person CPD event at our Hampshire hospital &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/tvm797axkglhjl3qzpihq\/Hampshire-Hospital-CPD-invite-20.02.24.pdf?rlkey=loi98zz6bz7dlqld6jk8vypri&amp;dl=0\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frimley Post Cataract Service Goes Live &#8211; 08 January 2024 Dear colleagues, Frimley Trust began transferring patients through OPERA for post-operative assessment as of 11 January 2024. Please check your OPERA practice dashboard every day to contact and book in patients that have been transferred to your practice for post-operative assessment. Patients will be transferred &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/2024\/01\/19\/latest-news-from-hampshire-loc-19-january-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest News from Hampshire LOC &#8211; 19 January 2024&#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-947","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\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/hampshire-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}