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At nation level, a robust legal framework, which includes General
Ophthalmic Services (GOS) regulations, underpins primary eye care.
This means patients benefit from accessible sight testing, vision
correction and case-finding services across all four nations.
In England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, enhanced
primary eye care and hospital eye care services are organised on a
nation-by-nation basis but all build on the solid foundation of the
core primary eye care service.

This system has proven its worth for patient and public
protection while enabling safe innovation, technological
advancement and advancing levels of practice. We must
ensure it is protected, supported and evolves in safe and
proportionate ways to meet the needs of individual patients
and populations. That is why FODO:

• Strongly supports the • Strongly supports informed
existing regulatory patient choice and freedom
framework for primary eye for patients to vote with their
care services across the UK. feet as a critical element in
patient protection.
• Will continue to advocate for
only evidence-based change
and proportionate risk-based
regulation for all eye care
services across the UK.

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