College of Optometrists publishes updated guidance

College of Optometrists publishes updated guidance

College of Optometrists publishes updated guidance. Remote consultations, myopia and collaborative care pathways are among the topics covered in the refreshed Guidance for Professional Practice.

The College of Optometrists has published an updated Guidance for Professional Practice?for Optometrists.

The fourth edition, titled?Good Practice Better Care, contains four new sections. Covering: remote consultations and the delivery of virtual care; assessing and managing children with myopia; collaborative care pathways; and visual field and retinal structural terms.

Significant updates have been made to pre-existing sections, including instilling eyedrops, principles of the routine eye examination, ethical research and the equipment list for the routine eye examination.

The development of the guidance was overseen by an Expert Review Group, with representation from across the UK, and was subject to a six-week public consultation.

Expert Review Group member and vice chair of Optometry Scotland, Eilidh Thomson, highlighted that a collaborative approach was taken to creating the guidance.

“The review group have applied lessons learned from the pandemic and beyond to provide robust guidance which should provide every practitioner clarity and confidence moving forward in their clinical practice for years to come,” she said.

Lead clinical adviser at the College of Optometrists, Daniel Hardiman-McCartney, shared: “The fourth edition has many updates and contains new sections that enable optometrists to innovate the ways eye care can be delivered, whilst still ensuring good practice and protecting the public.”

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