Sight and sound loss: Detection and management in a community setting and section agm 2016 is a conference dedicated to visual and sensory problems, their prevention, commissioning and detection.
Topics
- Patient perspective: My journey to blindness with AMD
- The role of primary care in improving detection, prevention and outcomes in reducing sight loss
- The certification of vision impairment, its importance and how its use is key to continuing social care of the patient
- Achieving better outcomes in primary and community eye health services
- Improving accessibility and inclusivity in the GP surgery and assisting GPs in a greater understanding of their key role in early and better referrals
- Vision 2020: The fight against poor and failing sight in the UK
- A description and hands on display of low vision aids
- Demonstration of the latest developments in fundus photography and the measurement of intra ocular pressures taking into account residual elasticity and thickness of the cornea
- Groups who are excluded from vision care, those that are homeless or have learning difficulties
- What it’s like to lose your hearing when loss of sight or other disabilities might co-exist
- Dealing with sensory loss, audiology in the community
- Care in the community, care homes, residential homes and nursing
Who should Attend
- Ophthalmologists all grades
- AHP’s
- Optometrists
- GPs and clinical nurses involved or interested in eye health and hearing loss
- Commissioners
