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Electronic referral with Digital images Eyecare Integration Scotland
Roshini Sanders (National Clinical Lead)
Peter Carson (Optometry Scotland) John Legg (RNIB)
RNIB Scotland - Technology for Life Glasgow 2013
Glasgow May 2013
Introduction
Eyecare Integration Project
Patient and Service benefits Patient Survey Community Optometry
Service Live demonstration -OCT
Eyecare Integration Business Case ( 2009 – 2011)
£6.6 million awarded to ophthalmology/optometry following three business case submissions
54 referral forms condensed to five electronic forms
IT connection finalised – VPN (virtual private network)
Integration of 14 scottish healthboards, 900 optometry practices and general practices
Scottish General Ophthalmic Services contract (GOS)
£98 million/annum
2 million eye tests/annum
5% sent to hospital (150,000)
1 million/annum postgraduate education
National Optometry IT survey – Scotland 2013
80% response rate 83% have broadband 98.3% perimetry 98% retinal camera 16.5% OCT (60)
Eyecare - Scottish Patient Survey
100 patients between ages 45 – 95 Free Annual eye tests – 20% unaware Glaucoma – 30% unaware of treatments Diabetes eye screening – 60% unaware Macular Degeneration – 50% unaware of
treatment
Real potential patient benefits Service delivery redesign Better use of primary and secondary care
resource Education benefits Continuous real time refinement process
Summary
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