Community Urgent Eye Care Services - East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull

Description

The Community Urgent Eyecare Service will provide timely access to care in a community setting for patients in East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull who have urgent or minor eye conditions. The service will assess and manage patients with recent and significant changes or the onset of such changes in eye conditions based on the following presenting conditions: • Dry eye (lasting longer than 2 weeks after seeing a pharmacist and trying home treatments) • Red eye with pain • Photophobia • Painful eye • Flashes and new floaters • Blurry vision • Diplopia • Distorted vision • Sudden loss of vision in one or both eyes • Symptomatic field loss • Flashes and floaters • In growing eyelash(es) • Non-penetrating foreign body The service will also provide Glaucoma Repeat Testing services. The service will be delivered through local optometry practices and supported by independent prescribing optometrists. Lot 1: The Community Urgent Eyecare Service will provide timely access to care in a community setting for patients in East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull who have urgent or minor eye conditions. The service will assess and manage patients with recent and significant changes or the onset of such changes in eye conditions based on the following presenting conditions: • Dry eye (lasting longer than 2 weeks after seeing a pharmacist and trying home treatments) • Red eye with pain • Photophobia • Painful eye • Flashes and new floaters • Blurry vision • Diplopia • Distorted vision • Sudden loss of vision in one or both eyes • Symptomatic field loss • Flashes and floaters • In growing eyelash(es) • Non-penetrating foreign body The service will be delivered through local optometry practices and supported by independent prescribing optometrists. NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB are intending to award a contract an existing provider following direct award process C of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. Approximate lifetime value of the contract is £1,240,800 Contract term - 15/04/2026 - 31/03/2028 (contract term may by extended by one (1) year until 31/03/ 2029).