Welcome to the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear LOC website
The Northumberland, Tyne & Wear LOC is the official organisation that represents optometrists and opticians in our area. It was formed in January 2015 by the amalgamation of North of Tyne and South Tyne & Wear LOCs. The main role of the LOC is to work with local NHS commissioners to make community eye care services accessible to patients and cost-effective for the NHS.
The objective of this website, launched on 6/6/2020, is to provide eye care practitioners, other health care professionals and the public with information about all aspects of eye care provision available within Northumberland, Tyneside and Sunderland.
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Our next meeting will be in October, dates will follow shortly once confirmed.
The Opera platform includes a Help and Support page with a range of useful resources. There is also an online chat function from the home page, the blue chat bubble in the bottom right hand corner, which can be used to seek help during registration or ongoing for service delivery. Opera introduction webinars took …
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27 November 2020
We’ve put together some tips to help you avoid some common errors: Practice Registrations When you complete your Practice registration the initial onboarding login will be sent to the email address inputted as ‘main contact email’. Please ensure that this email address is unique to the Practice that you are registering, and is correctly inputted without typos Please ensure that you …
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27 November 2020
Opera system – From next week onwards, PES will be asking all practices that deliver PES services to register to transition to Opera. Practices will receive an email which will include an invitation to register. Once you receive this email, please complete the registration process as soon as possible, ideally before 14 December 2020. If you are not …
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27 November 2020
Our next meeting will be in October, dates will follow shortly once confirmed.
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