Whole workforce staff training available via the BOOST platform.
28 January 2025
Free D/deaf Awareness Training:
Free D/deaf Awareness training is now available to via Boost. Membership to the Boost community is open to anyone with an interest in driving forward change in health and care in the North East and North Cumbria. This includes people working in the NHS, local authorities, public health, voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE), people with lived experience, private sector providers and many more. You can be from any discipline and at any stage in your career, all you need is a passion to improve health and care in the region: sign up here Boost | Learning Academy
Details of the training, plus much more, can be found in the Healthcare Inequalities Training Catalogue: Boost | Learning Academy
There are 3 modules:
Deaflink Module 1 – Understanding Deafness: Boost | Learning Academy
Deaflink Module 2 – Communicating with People who are D/deaf: Boost | Learning Academy
Deaflink Module 3 – Working with Interpreters: Boost | Learning Academy
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear LOC Latest News
North East & Yorkshire Eyecare Worksforce Strategy
NEY Eye Care Workforce Strategy – August 2024
29 June 2025
Proposed Primary Care Strategy for the North East and North Cumbria
From the Primary Care Collaborative, co-designed with LOC input. More details HERE
29 June 2025
IMPORTANT YOU WILL LOSE ACCESS TO YOUR NHS MAIL ACCOUNT
Unless you set up the Multi-factorial Authentication (MFA) before the 26th of March 2025! This is important especially if you don’t use their NHS mail account very often. It is very straightforward to do on a computer. Once logged in to NHS mail, find Profile and then the Self Service tab. There you can …
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20 March 2025
NuTH Cataract Services – REMINDER February 2025
Following a number of recent queries, please find below some reminders about the NuTH Cataract Services. Pre-Op If you are a provider of this service, please ensure all Pre-Cataract Assessments and onward referrals are sent via OPERA direct to NuTH for all patients who make this choice. If you do not participate in …
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19 February 2025
Update to the Extended Eye Care Services information on this website (Dec 2024)
The webpage surrounding the Extended Eye Care services has been updated including a link to the PES Patient Eligibility Tool. HERE
12 December 2024
EeRS Electronic Referral Platform pilot
The rollout of the ‘EyeV’ electronic referral platform for the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) pilot across Optometry continues. Details regarding how to onboard an Optometrist or an Optometry practice can be found HERE There is no funding to support practices with onboarding and accessing this. EyeV is not a commissioned Enhanced Optometry Service …
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2 October 2024
Glaucoma Services Patient Discharges from NuTH (Oct 2024)
For those Optometry practices registered to accept stable glaucoma and OHT monitoring. NuTH have now begun to discharge patients from into this service, so please ensure that you regularly check your OPERA platform. Patients will appear in the “action required” section on OPERA. Please check the documents that have been attached to the …
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2 October 2024
Glaucoma Enhanced Referral Service (GERS)
August 2024 Please see below for the pathway for glaucoma patients across Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle Gateshead. Please remember that patients who have a sight test at your practice and who are identified as having raised IOP and/or glaucomatous visual field loss with no other indication of glaucoma should be seen within GRR. …
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2 September 2024
Staff Wellbeing Hub
Quick, Free and Confidential Support for You! 💬 As we start 2025, many of our health and social care systems are under strain. Staff, working to deliver the best care they can, feel the pressure personally. • 1 in 3 NHS staff will experience mental ill health • 1 in 4 NHS staff will consider …
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17 July 2024