Service for people at risk of developing glaucoma
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE clinical guidelines through commissioning, and is a resource to help health professionals in England to commission an effective service for people at risk of developing glaucoma.
This commissioning guide focuses on the referral and monitoring of people who have ocular hypertension or suspected chronic open angle glaucoma (COAG). It does not focus on the monitoring of those people who have diagnosed COAG.
This commissioning guide should be read together with the following NICE guidance:
The clinical guideline covers clinical and cost effectiveness in detail and underpins the content of this guide. Implementation of the guidance noted above is the responsibility of local commissioners and/or providers. Commissioners and providers are reminded that it is their responsibility to implement this guidance, in their local context, in light of their duties to avoid unlawful discrimination and to have regard to promoting equality of opportunity. Nothing in the guidance should be interpreted in a way which would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.
The guide:
- makes the case for commissioning a service for people at risk of developing glaucoma
- specifies service requirements
- helps you determine local service levels
- helps you ensure corporate and quality assurance.
The full text of this commissioning guide is accessed from the navigation menu on the right hand side of the screen. The associated commissioning tool is available until 25 June 2010 to primary care organisations in England who are already registered to use the tool. New registrations for the existing commissioning tool will not be possible after 31 March 2010.
From 1 April 2010 the new freely available commissioning and benchmarking tool can be downloaded here. There is no need to register.
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This page was last updated: 12 May 2010
- Service for people at risk of developing glaucoma
- Commissioning a service for people at risk of developing glaucoma
- Specifying a service for people at risk of developing glaucoma
- Determining local service levels for a service for people at risk of developing glaucoma
- Assumptions used in estimating a population benchmark
- The commissioning and benchmarking tool
- Ensuring corporate and quality assurance
