Scottish NHS Recovery Plan announced

Scottish NHS Recovery Plan announced

The Scottish NHS Recovery Plan sets out key ambitions and actions to be developed and delivered now and over the next 5 years in order to address the backlog in care caused by the pandemic and to meet ongoing healthcare needs for people across Scotland.

The plan highlights the way in which eye care services are delivered, with a focus on managing significantly more patients in the community instead of in hospital. One goal stated is to reduce demand for acute services – freeing up capacity in the acute sector.

The Scottish Government has also said it will invest £2 million annually for “a range of innovative projects, including a new National Low Vision service for visually impaired people provided by accredited community optometrists and dispensing opticians; enabling more complex anterior eye conditions to be managed by Independent Prescriber optometrists; and stable glaucoma and treated ocular hypertension patients to be discharged from hospital into the management of accredited community optometrists.

There is also a commitment to invest £200,000 to pilot enhanced community audiology services, and we aim to develop community hearing services that are on a par with primary care services by the end of this parliament.

You can delve into the whole report here