{"id":652,"date":"2025-12-01T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/?p=652"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:24:22","slug":"surrey-loc-and-healthwatch-surrey-investigate-barriers-to-eye-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/2025\/12\/01\/surrey-loc-and-healthwatch-surrey-investigate-barriers-to-eye-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey LOC and Healthwatch Surrey investigate barriers to eye care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of months Surrey LOC has joined forces with Healthwatch Surrey to engage with various community groups to investigate and explore if there are any barriers to certain groups in accessing eye care.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of November the LOC joined Healthwatch in Camberley with the local Nepalese community, where challenges in communication and understanding the local eye care pathways were explored in view to making healthcare more accessible.\u00a0 We thank the Nepalese community for their warm welcome and openness to share their views and thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/IMG_1823-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/IMG_1823-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/IMG_1823-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/IMG_1823-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/IMG_1823-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/IMG_1823-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of months Surrey LOC has joined forces with Healthwatch Surrey to engage with various community groups to investigate and explore if there are any barriers to certain groups in accessing eye care. At the end of November the LOC joined Healthwatch in Camberley with the local Nepalese community, where challenges in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/2025\/12\/01\/surrey-loc-and-healthwatch-surrey-investigate-barriers-to-eye-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surrey LOC and Healthwatch Surrey investigate barriers to eye care&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1087,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}