Transcript Slide 1 - Vision 2020 UK

Monitoring standards
Barbara Ryan
Accreditation Manager Welsh Eye Care Initiative (WECI)
Clinical Governance Lead all-Wales Low Vision Service (WLVS)
• All- Wales Low Vision Service
• Standards for everyone
• Children’s low vision project
• Nathan Davies
• An audit tool to measure impact on children
All Wales Low Vision Service
Established 2004
Based in 160 community practices
Funded by Welsh Assembly Government (WAG)
Main aim to improve access
Standards for all
en Access referral
• Close to everyone's home
• Anyone can refer
• Waiting times less than 2 weeks
• Assessment about an hour
• Recall and follow-up
• Practitioners trained and accredited
• Links with other local services
• Good range of equipment and LVAs
Standards monitored continually
Standard record card
Faxed to secure Fax in Carmarthenshire LHB
Data Entered Computer DB
Low Vision record card
Date: ___ / ___ / ___
Patient Details
DOB
Patient Address
Title
Surname
First Names
GP
Postcode
GP address
Telephone
 Male  Female
Ocular History
Registered: Blind
Partially Sighted Not Registered
General Health
 AMD
 Glaucoma
 Diab Eye Dis
 Cataract
 Other
 Not known
Medication
Accessing the service
How did they get there?
Who referred them?
 Public transport
 Car
 Taxi
 Walked
 Accompanied
 Alone
 Ambulance
 Ophthalmologist
 < 2 weeks
 GP
 2 weeks to 1 month
 Optometrist
 1 to 3 months
 Social/ rehab worker 3 to 6 months
 Voluntary agency
 6 months to 1 year
 Friend/ relative/ self
 > 1 year
How long did they wait?
Children’s low vision project
• Children were not being assessed in Wales
• Low Vision Advocate appointed
• First year 10 one day multi-disciplinary
training and discussion sessions
• Over 250 children seen in WLVS