The Low Vision Pathway provides a user-friendly, streamlined service offered close to home reducing patient anxiety due to long waiting times.
LOCSU’s Clinical Advisory Group has developed this pathway, in consultation with LOCs, visual impairment charities and patients, to be delivered by both optometrists and dispensing opticians working in primary eyecare.
The low vision pathway will:
- Encourage collaborative working with multidisciplinary teams such as the falls team and sensory support following a low vision appointment via information sharing and signposting
- Release capacity within the overburdened hospital clinic
- Provide a more cost-effective service with a greater number of patients being managed within the primary care setting
- High-quality, low-vision assessment, information, and clinical support.
Our low vision pathway is designed to provide people living with sight loss with:
- A user-friendly, streamlined service offered close to home reducing patient anxiety due to long waiting times
- Easy access to low vision aids (LVAs) and daily living aids, where appropriate, to meet individual needs
- A high-quality low vision assessment by eye care professionals, providing information and personalised clinical advice
- Seamless integration with other local services supporting those with sight loss
- The ability to self-refer, encouraging people with existing sight loss to easily access support.
Low Vision WOPEC course
Low Vision accredited practitioners can give patients with sight loss quicker access to a high quality specialist assessment, a supply of low vision and daily living aids, support closer to home.
In this short course, provided by WOPEC and LOCSU, lectures cover pathology, assessment of visual function, low vision needs, magnifiers, and low vision solutions.
To register for this course, please contact your LOC to a request a code.
