What is the Minor Eye Conditions Service?
The Minor Eye Conditions Service provides assessment and treatment for people with recently occurring minor eye problems. It is an NHS service provided by accredited optometrists.
What conditions are included in the service?
- Loss of vision including transient loss
- Ocular pain
- Differential diagnosis of red eye
- Corneal scratches and abrasions
- Foreign body and emergency c/l removal (not including your practice patients)
- Dry eye
- Blapharitis
- Epiphora
- Trichiasis
- Differential diagnosis of lumps and bumps within vicinity of the eye
- Flashes/floaters
- Patient reported sudden onset of field defects
- Sudden onset of blurred vision (you must consider if a sight test would be more appropriate).
Excluded conditions
- Severe conditions e.g. orbital cellulitis, temporal arteritis
- Eye problems related to herpes zoster
- Adult squints, long standing diplopia
- Removal of suture
- Patient report symptoms that indicate a sight test is more appropriate than this service
- Repeat field tests to aid diagnosis to aid an eye examindation
- Your own contact lens patients presenting with problems
- Suspected cancers of the eye
- Dry age related macular degeneration
- Patients with significant other ocular pathology requiring specialist referral
- The service is not to be used to monitor any diabetic retinopathy patients.