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Surrey Heartlands Safeguarding Newsletter August 2025

Surrey Heartlands Safeguarding Newsletter August 2025   Surrey Wide ICB Safeguarding Newsletter August

2 September 2025

Healthwatch Bulletin August 2025

Healthwatch Surrey Insight Bulletin August 2025 Insight Bulletin – August 2025  

2 September 2025

Reminder to Complete Annual NHS Complaints Submission

A reminder to all practices to complete the annual NHS complaints submission for 2024/2025.  It is a mandatory requirement to submit an annual return providing the number of written NHS complaints your optometry service has received. The online submission portal has been reopened from Monday 21st July to Monday 18th August to allow those practices …

28 July 2025

Quality in Optometry Survey Feedback

Following on recent Quality in Optometry survey results showed 82% found the platform easy to use and navigate. Survey respondents reported the ready to use policy templates and help and guidance section were particularly useful. Although the overall navigation and usability was found to be good, it would benefit from modernizing.   Equally, policy templates could …

28 July 2025

Quality in Optometry Survey

You are invited to take part in a survey regards Quality in Optometry which is a bespoke quality assurance toolkit developed by the sector for the sector. There are to be some small changes to the NHS Standard contract and the Quality in Optometry toolkit will be updated to reflect this. The survey closes on …

30 June 2025

Healthwatch Surrey Insight Bulletin June 2025

Healthwatch Surrey Insight Bulletin June 2025 Insight Bulletin – June 2025

26 June 2025

Surrey Heartlands Safeguarding Newsletter June 2025

Surrey Heartlands Safeguarding Newsletter June 2025 Surrey Wide ICB Safeguarding Newsletter_June 2025

26 June 2025

Nuffield Health, Woking CPD event Wednesday 16th July 7.00pm to 9.00pm

Mr Mike Tappin, consultant ophthalmologist would like to invite you to the next Nuffield Health CPD event: Wednesday 16th July 2025 7.00pm to 9.00pm (dinner at 7.00pm and session starts at 7.30pm) Nuffield Health Woking, GU21 4BY Mr Mike Tappin presents: “Navigating the minefield of premium intraocular lens choices and how to council your patients” …

26 June 2025

ISWL LOC CPD event following AGM “21st Century Glaucoma” 8.00pm following the LOC AGM

Dear Colleagues, ISWL LOC are holding a CPD event following the LOC AGM on: Thursday 19th June 2025 at 8.00pm, at Merton Vision, 67 Clarendon Road, London, SW19 2DX Mr Faisal Ahmed, from Imperial presents: ’21st Century Glaucoma’ 1 interactive CPD point for OOs and DOs Mr Faisal Ahmed, is a senior Glaucoma Ophthalmic Consultant …

10 June 2025

Hoya CPD webinar event Wednesday 18th June 2025 7.30pm

Dear Colleagues, Sofia Fazal Professional Service Manager for Hoya UK would like to invite you to their next CPD webinar event: Wednesday 18th June 2025, 7.30pm Prof David Elliott presents: “Non-tols”, Rechecks and Remakes: Why they occur and how to avoid them – C-112437 1 Interactive CPD Point Description: This lecture summarises the extent of …

10 June 2025

LOCSU Latest News

Referrals during the Microsoft Outage

We know LOCs are being contacted by practices who are concerned about how to refer patients while systems are affected.

13 November 2026

LOCSU impacted by Microsoft Outage

LOCSU has been impacted by the global Microsoft outage and is currently unable to send or receive emails.

13 November 2026

Important LOC and GOS Contractor Update on National Negotiations Concerning GOS and eRS Funding

A message from Peter Hampson on behalf of OFNC on national developments concerning GOS funding, eRS implementation and related negotiations.

11 November 2026

2026 ROCs Begin in the North of England

The long-awaited 2026 Regional Optical Conferences (ROCs) kicked off in the north of England this week.

6 November 2026

Find out about upcoming events

Find out about upcoming events