OFNC Joins Primary Care Professions in Responding to Spending Review Announcement

18 June 2025

 

The Optometric Fees Negotiating Committee (OFNC) has joined with primary care professions to issue a statement on 16th June responding to the Government’s Spending Review.

The statement says:

“We welcome the Government’s commitment to the NHS reiterated in the Spending Review announcement… However, due to the pressures all parts of primary care are facing due to an historic focus on specialist settings, bureaucracy, and poor workforce planning by NHS England – as well as funding cuts to some of our sectors – it is clear there is little capacity to deliver the reforms needed, and improve the care people receive closer to home, without further investment in primary care. The decision regarding allocations within the DHSC budget is the single opportunity in this Parliamentary cycle to transform investment into primary care. Of the 1.5 million patients treated by the NHS each day, over three quarters of these interactions take place within the primary care setting: their sole NHS experience. The key to future election success lies with us, working with you.”

To view the full statement, please click here.

See our article on the statement by OFNC and sector bodies dated 17 June, here.