North Yorks CPD Day Save the Date Oct 15th
Our 2024 CPD Day will be Tuesday October 15th at The Railway Museum York The list of speakers will be published when available
10 April 2024
Our 2024 CPD Day will be Tuesday October 15th at The Railway Museum York The list of speakers will be published when available
10 April 2024
The next LOC meeting will be held at The Crown Hotel Boroughbridge on Tuesday July 2nd 2024. There will be a Finger Buffet at 6:30pm meeting commences 7:00pm. Please inform our Chairman if you wish to attend. Please email : chairnyloc@gmail.com
9 April 2024
The new email for Harrogate District Foundation Trust hospital is; hdft.eyereferrals@nhs.net The previous email address is no longer monitored.
19 December 2023
A new secretaries report has been posted from our fourth meeting in 2023
10 November 2023
We have been asked if a log in is needed for our site. We have no private members section so a log in is never needed to access all areas of our site.
24 September 2023
Dear GOS Contractors, Humber and North Yorkshire NHS England, in collaboration with Local Optical Committees (LOCs) across the area, is funding a range of training and development opportunities to support the clinical and professional development for the Community Optometry workforce. This local funding is in addition to the recent funding offered by Health Education England …
30 November 2022
There is an attached flyer giving details on a mentoring scheme for Optometrists. The scheme is called GPMplus mentoring. GPMplus mentoring can support anyone who would like to explore ways to develop themselves, or who have a career problem or opportunity they’re not sure how to move forward with. Whilst the mentoring service is aimed …
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23 November 2022
We are running another session of focus groups on the same topic – ECP attitudes towards Myopia Management. I would be extremely grateful if you would be able to share this poster to advertise this event with members of your LOC? Either at a meeting or in a newsletter or something similar? The session is scheduled for …
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5 September 2022
Re: Hypertension Scheme Training: We are pleased to share the link for the recorded training webinar session which took place on 14th June 2022 (the recording is 1 hour and 42 minutes). This session was specifically for GOS contractors and explains how to take BP measures, provide lifestyle advice and how to use PharmOutcomes to …
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24 June 2022
Government has today announced that it has decided to impose another real-terms cut to the NHS sight test fee.
26 March 2024
Many contractors have been asking for news about fees and grants.
5 March 2024
The Health and Social Care Act 2022 has made it a requirement of all CQC regulated health and care providers that all their staff receive mandatory learning disability and autism awareness training by people with lived experience.
29 February 2024