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Developing and training
the future primary eye
care workforce
Primary eye care benefits from a large and flexible registered
workforce that can do more to meet the population’s eye health
needs at all life stages.
Eye health professionals in the UK 26
Optometrists
57% Most optometrists
Dispensing opticians and dispensing
25% opticians work in
Orthoptists primary eye care
5% settings across
Ophthalmologists the UK
12%
24 Optometrists per 100,000 people, 11 Dispensing opticians
including 2 Independent Prescribing per 100,000 people,
Optometrists per 100,000 including 2 contact lens
opticians per 100,000
5 Ophthalmologists per 2 Orthoptists per
100,000. Including 2 consultant 100,000 people
ophthalmologists per 100,000
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