{"id":655,"date":"2025-12-01T16:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/?p=655"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:35:52","slug":"healthwatch-surrey-sight-loss-follows-you-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/2025\/12\/01\/healthwatch-surrey-sight-loss-follows-you-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthwatch Surrey: Sight Loss Follows you home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer Healthwatch Surrey have been engaging with local Macular Society community support groups to explore the impact of sight loss and at the request of the LOC to explore patients&#8217; views on the access and support on offer to those with low vision in Surrey.\u00a0 Here is the report and findings from their investigations which highlights that much more could and should be done to support those with sight loss and as community optometry we all have a part to play in offering timely support and signposting to this vulnerable group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2025\/12\/Sight-loss-follows-you-home-November-2025.docx\">Sight loss follows you home &#8211; November 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer Healthwatch Surrey have been engaging with local Macular Society community support groups to explore the impact of sight loss and at the request of the LOC to explore patients&#8217; views on the access and support on offer to those with low vision in Surrey.\u00a0 Here is the report and findings from their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/2025\/12\/01\/healthwatch-surrey-sight-loss-follows-you-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Healthwatch Surrey: Sight Loss Follows you home&#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-655","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\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/surrey-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}