Webinar - Glaucoma Care Reimagined: Empowering Primary Care Optometry

The NHS Ten-Year Health Plan signals a decisive shift of care from hospital to the community. Primary eye care, present in every community, is central to making that shift real for people affected by glaucoma.

This is a joint sector webinar bringing together The College of Optometrists, LOCSU, AOP, FODO and ABDO and will explore how primary care optometry can play a fuller role across the glaucoma pathway.

Hear from our sector's multi-organisation panel on:

new local commissioning and pathway developments
the policy and funding landscape
equipment and infrastructure decisions for practices
the clinical protocol underpinning community glaucoma care
the contribution of dispensing opticians and the whole practice team to adherence and improved patient outcomes

This webinar is designed for optometrists, dispensing opticians, LOC chairs and practice owners. Pre-submit your questions and join the live Q&A.

Daniel Hardiman-McCartney MBE FCOptom Higher Cert Glauc

Clinical Adviser

Daniel is one of our clinical advisers for four days each week, dividing the remainder of his time between primary care optometry and community glaucoma clinics in East Anglia. He is a passionate advocate of the profession, committed to supporting all practitioners and ensuring that patient care is always at the heart of optometry. He has helped lead the sector’s response to the pandemic and has made many national media appearances discussing the importance of good eye health and the vital role of optometry in primary care.

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Lydia Chang

GIRFT joint clinical lead for ophthalmology and consultant ophthalmologist at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lydia was appointed a consultant ophthalmologist at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in 2008. She simultaneously served as an honorary consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital (from 2008 to 2016), setting up the glaucoma service at Moorfields at Bedford Hospital. In 2020, she relocated and was appointed as a substantive consultant at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.

Her subspecialty interest is glaucoma, having completed an MD thesis evaluating the role of inflammation in glaucoma surgery, based at the Institute of Ophthalmology and the Royal Free Hospital. Lydia was the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ representative on the working group set up by the Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning, assisting in the publication of the Community Ophthalmology and Primary Eye Care for First Contact Care Frameworks in 2015 and 2016.