Sight and sound loss: Detection and management in a community setting and section agm 2016

  • 15 Jun 2016
  • Royal Society of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Description

Sight and sound loss: Detection and management in a community setting and section agm 2016 is a conference dedicated to visual and sensory problems, their prevention, commissioning and detection.

Sight and sound loss: Detection and management in a community setting and section agm 2016 covers topics such as:

  • Patient perspective: My journey to blindness with AMD
  • The role of primary care in improving detection, prevention and outcomes in reducing sight loss
  • The certification of vision impairment, its importance and how its use is key to continuing social care of the patient
  • Achieving better outcomes in primary and community eye health services
  • Improving accessibility and inclusivity in the GP surgery and assisting GPs in a greater understanding of their key role in early and better referrals
  • Vision 2020: The fight against poor and failing sight in the UK
  • A description and hands on display of low vision aids
  • Demonstration of the latest developments in fundus photography and the measurement of intra ocular pressures taking into account residual elasticity and thickness of the cornea
  • Groups who are excluded from vision care, those that are homeless or have learning difficulties
  • What it’s like to lose your hearing when loss of sight or other disabilities might co-exist
  • Dealing with sensory loss, audiology in the community
  • Care in the community, care homes, residential homes and nursing

Sight and sound loss: Detection and management in a community setting and section agm 2016 brings together:

  • Ophthalmologists all grades
  • AHP’s
  • Optometrists
  • GPs and clinical nurses involved or interested in eye health and hearing loss
  • Commissioners

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Health & Medicine: Family medicine, Ophthalmology

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