Emergency eye care - 14.00 - 16.00 24 September 2021
Firstly, Emergency Eye Care services are pivotal to the provision of overall ophthalmic care. Eye Casualty is where many patients' first contact with ophthalmic services occurs, and is the filter for many patients who require further care. The ever-increasing demands on the NHS are well documented. This webinar considers how Emergency Eye Care services can adapt to meet these challenges, and serve all the stakeholders well? Secondly, no matter what our place is in the eye care landscape, we may all encounter patients requiring urgent ophthalmic care (not least as some senior clinicians were redeployed to Eye Casualties at the start of the pandemic). A clinical primer on emergency eye conditions is a valuable chance to learn or revisit what we all should know.
Chaired by Mr Michael Williams, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Medical Education, Queen's University of Belfast & Honorary Consultant, Medical Ophthalmology, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust & Tunde Peto, Queen's University Belfast
14.00 – 14.20 Anatomy of Digital A&E – a patient centred triage solution
Dr Gordon R. Hay, Service Director, A&E/Urgent Care Services, Moorfields Eye Hospital
14.20 – 14.30 Q&A
14.30 – 14.50 Ophthalmic emergencies that should get you out of bed
Mr Felipe Dhawahir-Scala, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon Director of the Acute Ophthalmic Services Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
14.50 – 15.00 Q&A
15.00 – 15.30 Service provision in Northern Ireland
- Eye Care Services in Northern Ireland before and after: apples and pears
Dr Deirdre Burns, Specialist Optometrist, Dept Ophthalmology, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
- The community optometrist perspective
Brian McKeown
- Optometrists in Eye Casualty: learning, surviving and thriving
Dr Katie Graham, Specialist Optometrist Cataract Service – South Tyrone Hospital RASC
15.30 – 16.00 Panel discussion