Guidance on when to refer; who to refer to; communicating referrals; and recording communications.
This table in the Guidance for Professional Practice provides information on which conditions are considered an emergency or urgent.
Acuity article on what makes a good referral letter, information you must include, and how much is too much.
In this recorded webinar, Dr Gordon Hay discusses true ocular emergencies and provides optometrists with clear guidance on how to make clear and effective referrals to eye casualty.
Kaye McIntosh on tackling the lack of standardisation when sharing ophthalmic images.
Welcome to the UK's leading optometry conference!
Clinical files: I think my patient has keratitis. How quickly should I refer them?
This recorded webinar presented by Kam Balaggan, covers essential ocular anatomy and OCT interpretation, focusing on the salient clinical and OCT features of all common vitreomacular disorders.
In this recorded webinar lecture Wendy Newsom covers all aspects of how to communicate effectively when referring a patient.
This online CPD course will guide you in making clinical decisions for your patients with neuro-ophthalmological signs and symptoms.
This online CPD course will help you with management decisions when retinal lesions are identified by both fundus examination and optical coherence tomography (OCT).
This online CPD course will guide you through a series of example referral letters, from the perspective of the person who receives them in the hospital eye service.
Podcast: Dr Gordon Hay answers all those questions there wasn't time to cover during his webinar on referrals.
In each issue, Acuity poses a topical question to a panel of members.