First, it must present a less centralised approach to reflect a different health and care landscape and the new operating model:.It argues that any review of a long-term strategy for the NHS should seek to achieve three objectives: This report has been informed by extensive engagement with our members, leaders across the NHS, through a series of roundtables and interviews.To have any value, discussions about future plans for the NHS must reflect this reality and set out an honest vision for what the NHS should seek to achieve over the remainder of this decade, and how it will be supported to do so amid the severe pressures local services are experiencing. While the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) in 2019 was welcomed by health leaders, the NHS has since faced the most significant pressures in its history resulting from COVID-19 and, more recently, inflation and the cost-of-living crisis.The International Council of Ophthalmology adheres to a set of moral principles and standards to guide the behavior of ophthalmologists within their professional domain. Ophthalmologists should follow a set of moral principles and standards to guide behavior within their professional domain.Studies of ophthalmic outcomes should include appropriate tools to evaluate visual functioning.

Treatment decisions should consider patient needs and match the clinician’s expectations with those of the patient.Ophthalmic care extends beyond the treatment of eye disease to promoting the well being of the patient.The ICO believes these principles should be emphasized in ophthalmic training, ophthalmic practice and in health care policy decisions:

Functional vision is directly related to quality of life and is the basis for the ICO’s International Standards for Eye Care and Vision.

ICO International Clinical Guidelines and Resourcesįunctional vision defines how a person performs in vision-related activities, more than how the eye functions (visual function).

World Sight Day and Eye Themed Health Days.

FRCS (Ophth)(Glasg) – Fellow of the RCPSG.

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