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AGM 2024

Notification of the 2024 LOC Annual General Meeting This is a reminder that The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the North and Northeast Lincolnshire LOC will be held on 7.30pm Thurs 11th July. Venue: This meeting will be held virtually via the zoom app. Please see the links below for full details and nomination papers. …

6 June 2024

SPRINT Events 2024

Humber & North Yorkshire Eyecare Continuing Professional Development SPRINT Events 2024 Humber and North Yorkshire (HNY) Integrated Care System (ICS) is hosting a series of virtual, interactive Continuing Professional Development (CPD) sessions for the local optometry community. The HNY ICB footprint covers 7 Ophthalmology Trust sites as well as multiple Independent Sector Providers.  The Optometry …

9 May 2024

Vouchers at a glance for 2024

Vouchers, supplements, tints and repair values that apply to England from 1 April 2024   Vouchers at a glance PDF 2024

3 April 2024

UKHSA is investigating a novel cluster of Burkholderia cenocepacia

UKHSA is investigating a novel cluster of Burkholderia cenocepacia involving 20 cases across the UK. Of these cases, 12 (60%) are male, 18 (90%) are adults and two are paediatric patients (age range 6 weeks – 82 years, median 57 years). 14/20 (70%) were critical care inpatients. Two patients have cystic fibrosis (CF). Preliminary epidemiological …

23 November 2023

NHSBSA Provider Assurance Ophthalmic – email address changes

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Provider Assurance Ophthalmic team administers GOS contract management, GOS 4 pre-authorisation for adults and Post Payment Verification for ICBs. The email addresses for ophthalmic providers to use for these services have changed. The new email addresses below are now to be used for the following areas: pao-cm@nhsbsa.nhs.uk – For …

20 July 2023

AOP – The latest guidance on hydroxychloroquine retinopathy

(Please note that as of this date we do not have a local community monitoring service active in North & North East Lincolnshire LOC area so practitioners should refer patients that are not being monitored to their GP and ask them to arrange monitoring) Latest guidance from the AOP :   Patients are sometimes told …

1 February 2023

NHS Mail – use it or lose it

NHS MAIL IN ENGLAND – IMPORTANT REMINDER FROM THE INFORMATION AND IT COMMITTEE The optical sector’s Information and IT Committee would like to remind all holders of NHS mail accounts in England of the important changes to NHS mail. NHS Mail – use it or lose it NHS Digital has announced a change to the …

10 December 2022

Equipment Grant

The LOC held a meeting on 03/11/2022 to discuss the recent offer of £2000 per practice to go towards equipment for enhanced services. The committee discussed whether to stick strictly to the original offer or to give the grant unconditionally.    It was felt that, from a governance point of view, it would be simpler if the money …

28 November 2022

Free CPD for Dispensing Opticians

NHSBSA are running a CPD event for DOs. This interactive CPD qualifies within the GOC Leadership and Accountability domain and will give some guidance on how early recall codes should be applied on GOS sight tests in England. Below are details of the free CPD C-103956 from the NHSBSA. Non-Dispensing Opticians are welcome to attend but …

6 November 2022

Covid booster update – England

Dear LOC Colleagues Please note that the National Booking Service in England is now open to healthcare workers. This means that optical teams in England can start to book their vaccination: Book or manage a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

12 September 2022

LOCSU Latest News

Book Now for the Next LOC Induction Course

Are you new to your LOC? Book now to join the next LOC Induction Course, beginning on Monday 13 January 2025.

11 October 2024

Sign Up to the Regional Optical Conferences This November: Venues Announced

This November, LOCSU is holding the first ever Regional Optical Conferences across the country, and we’re inviting LOCs to come and join us!

1 October 2024

Meet the Team – Steve Roberts

Helping patients to achieve the best possible vision and problem solving is what LOCSU’s newest advancement lead likes most about being a dispensing optician.

1 October 2024

Have You Got an Idea for a Case Study?

Whether you’d like to share a project that’s already started, or you have the early stages of an idea for one, LOCSU would like to hear from you.

1 October 2024

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