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Optometry has a critical part to play in helping the NHS tackle the backlog
“Optometry has a critical part to play in helping the NHS tackle the backlog”
“Optometry has a critical part to play in helping the NHS tackle the backlog”. AOP chief executive, Adam Sampson, discusses the opportunity for optometry. This is to help in supporting the hospital backlog through the provision of eye care in the community.
Having been in my role at the AOP for around a year now, I am settling into the underlying rhythms of the job. Board meetings every two months, Council three times a year. With 100% Optical and the AGM – those are the punctuation marks of my working existence. The coffee spoons with which I measure out my life, if I am channelling my inner T S Eliot.
These columns are another such marker. Every couple of months, I receive a polite reminder of the deadline, followed by a series of slightly less polite reminders as successive deadlines pass. Then, when guilt overcomes me, I sit down and crank something out which I send into the ether and move onto the next pressing action.
Somehow, in that process, I forget that somewhere, sometime, someone may actually read what I write. So, it came as a slight shock recently when I got an email regarding my description of local opticians “doing a decent trade” in my last column. My correspondent, an experienced and influential individual, gently questioned the effect such wording may have on the sector’s drive to extend the clinical reach of their activity.
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Optometry has a critical part to play in helping the NHS tackle the backlog