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Janice Foster, LOCSU CEO, ended the conference by sharing how she felt the NOC went and what happens next.

LOCSU’s National Optical Conference, otherwise known as the NOC, took place at Wyboston Lakes in Bedfordshire. Running from Monday 13 to Tuesday 14 November, NOC 2023 was a great success and saw bumper numbers attending the conference. Delegates heard updates on a range of topics including information from Zoe Richmond and Wojciech Karwatowski on a standard service specification for minor and u...

Ministerial Request: Standard Service Specification Minor and Urgent Eyecare

Andrew Byrne from NHSE was one of the facilitators in our optometry first workshops. He says the discussions demonstrated that relationships need to be worked on.

Cheryl Harding-Trestrail - Associate Director of Commissioning at NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (ICB) told us about how Optometry First was working on the Isle of Wight.

Key speaker Catherine Thompson from the NHS West Yorkshire ICB took part in our transformation day at the NOC. We asked her to sum up the mood of the delegates!

Louisa Wickham - National Clinical Director for Eyecare Transformation

We spoke to our key speaker Louisa Wickham about her new role as National Clinical Director of Eyecare Transformation. We started by asking her what success would look like.

LOCSU has produced a short video that looks at what the NHS reforms will mean for Local Optical Committees (LOCs). The video deals with the integrated care system transformation and transition and what it will mean for LOCs. Big changes are happening and more than ever before LOCs are at the forefront. During this period of change LOCSU is committed to providing support to our local optical com...

One of our highlights was a thought provoking speech from Professor Anton Emmanuel - Head of the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) After his speech we asked him why getting equality right matters:

Carolyn Fox - Head of Provider Transformation ​for Optometry First in Bassetlaw​. It’s one of three pilot areas for the new optometry first pathway. We asked her out it’s going:

NECRTP How to build an optometry first service webinar - presented by LOCSU's Zoe Richmond and NECRTP's Gloria Onwubiko.

Highlights of the Virtual NOC 2020 from Wed 25 Nov to Thur 3 Dec 2020

Recording of the Virtual NOC session on Thur 3 Dec

NOC 2020 - Clinical Pathways Update

Optical practitioners in areas without a CUES service

CUES Service Practitioners

NOC 2020 - The Covid-19 Response

NOC 2020 - National Outpatient Transformation Update