Optometric Enhanced Services

The contracts currently awarded to 30 optometric providers across Somerset provide the following Optometric Enhanced Services: • Acute Community Eye Care • Intra-Ocular Pressure Referral Refinement Service • Ocular Hypertension Monitoring Service These services are aimed at increasing access to acute eye care in the community and reducing unnecessary referrals to hospital eye care. Part of the service is aimed at the prompt diagnosis of high intra-ocular pressure in at risk patients. The contracts with these...