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 updated online CPD course for optometrists you will be given the background to four patients and will complete a series of activities related to each case.
A response from the College regarding concerns about the integrity of optometrists referring cataract patients to independent sector providers.
This is an in-person peer review taking place at Assembly Buildings, Belfast.
Clinical files: I have seen a patient in practice who I suspect has keratoconus. Do I need to refer them?
In this recorded lecture, Professor Bruce Evans FCOptom highlights the role of practitioners in providing eye care for children and aims to improve members' confidence in managing these cases whilst stressing the need for practitioners to be aware of their limitations.
Podcast: Mike Horler FCOptom answers all those questions there wasn't time to cover during his webinar on retinal treatments.
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.