Dear Colleagues We are pleased to provide you with an important update on waiting times for Moorfields sites in NEL Please find attached the most recent waiting times for cataract, glaucoma and medical retina referral to surgery wait times at Moorfields sites in NEL. We trust that this resource will serve as a valuable reference …
6 November 2024
We are excited to announce our new Instagram Page! Please follow and share with your colleagues: https://www.instagram.com/nel_loc/
23 September 2024
NELLOC MEGA CPD EVENT 19/09/2024. PROGRAMME. Venue: The London Darbar, 198 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG1 4LU 12.30pm -1-40pm Registration & Lunch 1.40pm-2.00pm Welcome Jig/Gurvinder Reflection statement Talk Stuart Wellings 2.00pm- 3.00pm Discussion Workshop Andrew Clarke Is Your Practice Sustainable? 3CPD pts 3.00pm – 4.00pm Lecture Oliver Bowes Emergency Ophthalmology. 1CPD Pt …
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11 September 2024
Please remember to register as soon as possible, see updated flyer. Full or half day registration is available.
22 August 2024
We are currently putting together a bid for a MECS service (incorporating glaucoma repeat measures and cataract refinement) across the NEL footprint. To that end we are collating expressions of interests from practices in order to inform our bid. The proposed fees are below. Please note for the MECS fee, this includes any follow-up as …
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9 August 2024
Further details to follow but please see below poster for further information. All day or half day registration available. No fees payable but only book if you are attending. We encourage you to circulate this among colleagues in NE London or nearby areas. Please email nellocsecretary@outlook.com promptly to register your interest.
5 August 2024
The North East London LOC is excited to present to you a mega CPD event. Please join us for a day of exceptional learning, with lunch, dinner and refreshments throughout the day. Please fill out the Doodle poll on the following link at your earliest convenience so that we can make the final arrangements. …
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15 July 2024
Community optometrists need to send referrals directly to a new Single Point of Access (SPoA), which routes them to the patient’s preferred hospital for triage and management. For NEL referrals please email: nelondonicb.eyerefer@nhs.net For general queries please email: nelondonicb.eyeadmin@nhs.net Please see the below link for further details about what should be included in referrals and further …
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13 May 2024
Dinner, CPD and AGM opportunity -8th May 2024. Dear All, This year’s NELLOC AGM will be held on Wednesday 8th May at Kanchans banqueting Suite, 53-55 Perth Road, Gants Hill, Ilford, Essex, IG2 6BX.(Nearby Car Park Cranbrook Road IG2 6NB). The North East London Local Optical Committee are pleased to announce another face to …
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22 April 2024
There have been enquiries from practitioners who need an nhs.net email and one of the requirements is an Authentication Code from the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA). NHS Business Services Authority have advised the following: Contractors now apply through the NHS Mail Portal for Optometry, however they require an authentication code from ourselves to apply. …
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8 December 2023
Today the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed it will impose yet more real terms cuts on NHS primary eyecare services. GOS1 fees will rise by just 2.5% to £24.13 for financial year 2025/26. All other payments and grants will be frozen at 2024/25 levels. This follows a freezing of patient benefits (NHS voucher values) … Continue reading “OFNC Statement: NHS disregards evidence and imposes more real terms cuts on GOS”
8 December 2025
LOCSU held the first Member Development Day at Grand Connaught Rooms in London on Monday 24 November – celebrated as a success by attending LOCs.
28 November 2025
