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Setting Standards
Demanding the best in low vision
services
Mary Bairstow
Low Vision Steering Group
Thursday May 8th 2008
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Standards in Low Vision
• What a history (a reminder)
• What standards?
• And young people?
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Low Vision Services Implementation
• Late 1990’s • More and better services• Low vision report• Suggests Low Vision
Services Committees
• Late 1990’s • More and better
services• Low vision report• Sets standards and
suggests lvsc’s as a means to change
• Sets standards
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2000 - 2008
• 79 LVSCs
(Wiltshire the newest)
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Setting standards
• Get everyone around the table• Identify what needs to be done
(then …. make plans about how to do it…….work with local commissioners
(PCTs , social care and education)
• Monitor
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So why the negativity?
“Low vision committees are struggling to make an impact. They're very useful for sharing information and getting services talking to one another but beyond that you achieve nothing or very little. And engaging whether it's the PCTs or local authority health partnerships - if you can't engage with them you get nowhere. Low vision is not a priority”.
BBC ‘In Touch’ programme - Nalsvi Conference July 2007
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But what vision
• 1/4 of service providers admit their services less than satisfactory or unsatisfactory AMD Alliance 2006
and………
• Service users do not know what they can expect from service providersLow Vision Project National Evaluation Report 2005
plus………….
• Some LVSCs lack clarity about their purpose (despite the clear remit given in the 1999 Report)Low Vision Project National Evaluation Report 2005
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Seeking a solution?
How you would you recognise a good service?
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Making them work
• 1999 - Voluntary sector recommendations, Foreword - Frank Dobson
• 2007 - Recommended by the DH, endorsed by LVSG
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Ideally -What status
• DH or Voluntary Sector or ?
• Any one else?
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1999 standards
• Who, where, what, when, continued support and monitoring services…..– Not clinical parameters– Close to home– Eye exam…. to certification … to vision
enhancement training……...– Within 6 weeks– Returning as required– Monitored
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New standards
6 Headings
• Design Principles• Referral, assessment and service• Information• Service improvement, monitoring and evaluation
of the service• Training• Communication
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What’s new?
• Emphasis on ‘booking of appointments’
• Reference to service being refused
• Notes on CRB checks
• Single contact point (though this is mentioned as an LVSC aim)
• Directions for commissioners
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What’s been lost?
• Notion of implementation or governance ( LVSCs )
• Sense of ‘the essential’ • Some specifics - Transport
- Issues of geography
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Issues - young people
• Identifying needs
• Registration, statements…baseline referral criteria
• Child specific visual function - ‘plasticity’ 3D vision, binocular vision, accommodation, etc…….
• Time lines - birth, childhood, adolescence, transitions
• Commissioning - Children’s Trusts, role of personalised budgets, minority v majority
• Training
• Participation - self advocated care
• Co-ordination
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Why is it timely ?
• UK Vision Strategy
• Department of Health Commissioning
Toolkit for Community Eye Care Services
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The task
Setting a standard for Children
Today • Have a vision• Engage in debate• Establish what’s needed - consensus approach
Tomorrow +• Support the LVSG Children’s Sub• Publicise• Debate