Sight and sound loss: Detection and management in a community setting and section agm 2016

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