UK Eye Care Data Hub updated with additional eye conditions
The UK Eye Care Data Hub, the most up-to-date and comprehensive model of the UK’s eye care workforce and eye diseases in one place, has been expanded to almost double the number of eye conditions and update aspects of the sector workforce data.
“After clinical consensus between Staffordshire Local Optical Committee and Local Eye Health Network members, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board agreed to commission a first wave of core enhanced services aimed at reducing referrals into Hospital Eye Services and enabling more patients to be managed within the community. This has expanded the clinical roles of primary care optometrists.
“The project team is using the UK Eye Care Data Hub to provide models of current eye care workforce capacity, disease prevalence and incidence and projected future trends. This is helping to ensure the efficiency and sustainability for both current and future monitoring service models designed to support the ‘hospital to community shift’ shift in eye care.”
Irfan Razvi MCOptom, Prof Higher Cert Glauc, Chair, Staffordshire Local Optical Committee, Council Member - West Midlands
“Users from across the UK and worldwide, including clinicians, academics and researchers, have logged in to use the UK Eye Care Data Hub since it launched in 2025. The hub has been used to support commissioners and designers of eye care services in each of the four UK nations to identify future population eye care needs based on data for a wide range of eye conditions seen in primary and secondary care, and to optimise the existing eye care workforce.”
Dr Gillian Rudduck MCOptom, President of The College of Optometrists
“The UK Eye Care Data Hub is an excellent resource with significant potential to support research and service development. I have used the tool to access workforce data and projections for a project on glaucoma filtering services. The detailed breakdown by higher qualification groups is particularly helpful.”
Dr Amy Hughes, Head of Research, Primary Eyecare Services