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COVID-19 Exemption for Patient Signatures Extended

The DHSC has confirmed today that the temporary measure whereby NHS GOS contractors state ‘COVID-19’ instead of requiring patient signatures on forms has now been extended until 30 June 2021.

29 March 2021

Department of Health and Social Care Confirms GOS Sight Test Fee Increase

The Department of Health and Social Care has said it will increase GOS sight test fees by 1.9% from April 2021.

25 March 2021

CUES – filling the gaps a year on

When it was first published, the COVID-19 Urgent eyecare service (CUES) pathway was promoted for the immediate crisis; to help ensure timely access to urgent and emergency eye care in a “COVID-safe” way.

23 March 2021

NHS Mail Update

In order to improve connectivity and to enable practices to access resources as part of the COVID-19 response in 2020, NHS England and NHS Digital created new batches of NHS mail accounts for optical practices and practitioners.

23 March 2021

Reporting of lateral flow devices

As optometry contractors will be invited this week to order more lateral flow devices (LFDs) on the PCSE online portal to re-supply their staff, it is imperative that primary care staff regularly testing through LFDs always report their results online.

12 March 2021

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