North East & Yorkshire Eyecare Worksforce Strategy
29 June 2025
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear LOC Latest News
CPD Event at RVI – 29/03/2026
NTW LOC CPD Event – RVI Message from Secretary: Thank you for participating in the CPD event. We hope you enjoyed the afternoon. If you have any feedback you would like to pass on please email me any comments. Email: secretary@ntwloc.org.uk
29 March 2026
NTWLOC CPD Event – Discussion Workshop
Sunday 29th March 2026 1.30pm Optometry Department, Newcastle Eye Centre, RVI, Newcastle upon Tyne Anterior Eye – Triage, Differential Diagnosis and Management Accredited for Optoms, DOs and CLOs – 3 points Also Visual Recognition Test – 2 points To reserve a place, please email Lesley Oglethorpe secretary@ntwloc.org.uk Deadline Friday 27th March
22 March 2026
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
Whole workforce staff training available via the BOOST platform.
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. …
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28 January 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
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