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RCOphth welcomes extra NHS funding which will help address eye care backlogs
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) has welcomed the announcement that the NHS in England will receive an extra £5.4 billion over the next six months to support its response to COVID-19 and help tackle waiting lists. This includes £1.5 billion to manage the elective surgery backlog (including £500 million capital funding), with delays to
RCOphth calls for action on workforce to reduce strain on ophthalmology services
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) has responded to a Health Education England (HEE) call for evidence to make the case for investment in the ophthalmology workforce to meet rapidly rising patient demand. Read our response in full here! Key points from our response The key points from our response are summarised below: Patient demand
The RCOphth launches Cataract Services Workforce Guidance
Working with primary and secondary partners and patients, the Cataract Services Workforce Guidance March 2021 includes a RCOphth cataract workforce calculator tool Mar2021 to support workforce planning to meet demand Cataract surgery is the UK’s most common elective operation. Approximately half a million operations are performed each year and demand is set to increase 25% over
RCOphth Cataract Workforce Guidance Consultation Open Now
This consultation seeks views on the proposed RCOphth Cataract Workforce Guidance. The cataract workforce group was set up to quantify the demand for cataract surgery over the next 10 years and define the workforce required to meet this demand in a sustainable way in response to increasing vacancies for eye consultants in the UK in
GMC survey on treatment affecting SAS doctors mirrors results of RCOphth SAS Survey in 2017
A survey released today, 9 January, by the GMC has found that many SAS and LE doctors experience rudeness, incivility, belittling and humiliation, in the workplace. The survey found that 30% of SAS doctors and 23% of their LE counterparts had been bullied, undermined or harassed at work in the last year, either by colleagues or