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Webinar - UK Eye Care Data Hub: forecasting eye care workforce and disease prevalence - 25 February 2025

Virtual session

About the event

The UK Eye Care Data Hub is a dashboard that has been developed to estimate the current eye care workforce and eye disease prevalence or incidence, and to model future trends over time. Find out more about the UK Eye Care Data Hub and access the dashboard.

In this webinar, you will learn how this new tool will help:

  • commissioners of eye care services across the UK to understand the needs of the patients and the current and future workforce available to meet those needs
  • optometrists and other eye care professionals to see where there may be opportunities for using their expertise
  • employers and commissioners to identify priorities for future workforce education, training and development

Speakers

Erin Barker

Erin Barker is a Senior Statistician with over five years of experience at York Health Economic Consortium (YHEC). She specializes in applying advanced statistical methods to health and health economics research, with expertise in using R for statistical analysis and modelling.

Erin is proficient in building interactive web applications using Shiny, allowing for dynamic data visualization and user-friendly interfaces.

Sarah Cant

Sarah is the Director of Policy & Strategy at The College of Optometrists. She is responsible for the College’s policy and influencing activities, clinical advice and guidance, and strategic planning.

Prior to joining the College, Sarah led the national One Digital partnership and has previously worked in senior policy and influencing roles in heath charities, including as Director of Policy & Strategy at Prostate Cancer UK. She has also been the Programme Director of two charitably-funded national health research programmes.

Sarah is a lay member of the Professional Conduct Committee and Health Committee of the General Osteopathic Council and a trustee of Pie Factory Music.

Raymond Curran

Raymond is Head of Ophthalmic Services within the Strategic Planning & Performance Group of the Department of Health NI. Trained as an optometrist in Birmingham and London, Raymond combined general ophthalmic services practice with sessional hospital positions in Western HSC Trust.

In 1997 he was appointed NI’s first (sessional) HSC Board ophthalmic adviser (Western) leading to his current substantive HSCB appointment in 2013.

In this role he is Northern Ireland regional lead for contracting General Ophthalmic Services, and commissioning of secondary care ophthalmology.

He has been involved with several large scale change programmes, most recently with the lead role in the establishment of prototype models for Daycase Elective Care Centres for cataract.

Nick Hex

Nick Hex has been Associate Director for the NHS and Public Sector at YHEC since 2010 and is a qualified accountant (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy).

He leads YHEC’s programme of work with the clients from organisations across the NHS and the public sector, providing services such as economic evaluation and modelling, literature and evidence review and analytical support.

Neal Suchak

Neal Suchak is the Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer at The College of Optometrists, and Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. He leads on workforce at the College, and manages the cross-sector UK Eye Care Data Hub project.

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