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Rhif elusen gof. 226227Reg charity no. 226227
Increasing the take up of sight tests
Ceri Jackson
Head of Sight Loss Prevention
RNIB Cymru
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Overview
• Impact of sight loss
• RNIB Context
• Current take up of sight tests
• Understanding the challenge
• Progress
• Eye Health Week
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RNIB's Strategy 2009 - 2014
• Stopping people losing their sight unnecessarily RNIB aims to bring about a reduction in the
rates of sight loss among people who are
most at risk.
• Supporting Independent Living
• Creating an inclusive society
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Impact of sight loss• Loss of independence
• 66% unemployed
• Getting out and about
• Emotional health
• Access to reading less than 5% books accessible
• 3 out of 4 older people with sight loss live in poverty
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Welsh Health Survey 2008 Percentage of people who have visited optometrist
Age Male Female
16-24 32% 43%
25-34 26% 44%
35-44 31% 46%
45-54 48% 56%
55-64 52% 62%
65-74 61% 67%
75+ 67% 70%
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General Ophthalmic Services
• In the year ending 31 March 2010: • 735,000 NHS sight tests in Wales, an increase of
16,000 (2.2 %) • 24,548 sight tests per 100,000 population. • 51.8 % (381,000) adults aged 60 and over
• Source GOS Activity Stats March 2010
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General Ophthalmic Services data 09/10
NHS Patient eligibility
Percentage by
eligibility 07/08
Percentage by eligibility
08/09
Percentage by eligibility
09/10
Number of tests 09/10
Adults 60 plus
41.5 46.4 51.8 380,671
Children 0 to 15
21.9 21 18.2 133,379
Adults receiving Income Support
9.1 8.5 8 58.532
Adults receiving tax credits
7.0 6.6 5.7 41.537
Relatives 40+ of Glaucoma sufferers
6.1 5.8 5.0 36,914
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Understanding the challenge - who has a sight test?• Robust data on sight tests required to
make eye health a priority and to inform awareness activities
• Frequency of GOS tests
• No central data on tests outside of GOS i.e. those not eligible for NHS sight test
• No data on ethnicity
• Limited geographical data
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Understanding the challenge - awareness and interventions• Understanding the risk factors
• Awareness levels amongst public and other health professionals e.g. GPs
• Explore attitudinal differences across demographic groups
• Understand the tipping points that encourage people to have a sight test
• Tried and tested interventions
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Progress
– Wales Vision Strategy Implementation Plan– MEGAFOCUS– Wales Glaucoma Alliance– Eye Health Project– Eye Health Inequalities Project
- Children's Vision Group– Cwm Taff Eye Health Equity Profile– Eye Health Week
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RNIB Cymru Eye Health Inequalities Project 2009 / 2010• To explore the barriers that people from low income
communities face in accessing regular eye health checks.
- Provide evidence to Directors of Public Health and other professionals in Wales
- Information to assist in understanding how to increase eye health checks in at risk groups
- Report and guidelines disseminated to key local and national stakeholders across Wales and UK
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RNIB Community Engagement Projects• Cwm Taff Health Board
• Belfast Health and Social Care Trust; South West Glasgow Community Health Care Partnership
• Leeds PCT
• Bradford and Airedale PCT
• City and Hackney PCT
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RNIB Community Engagement Projects • Develop and evaluate intervention strategies to affect• Increased access to and uptake of primary eye health
care services amongst groups at greatest risk of developing sight loss
• Increased access to and uptake of secondary eye health care services amongst groups at greatest risk of developing sight loss
• Improved patient concordance with treatment following diagnosis with an eye condition linked to avoidable sight loss
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Eye Health Week
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Eye Health Week
• The UK eye care sector joined forces with charities and healthcare professionals to launch the first ever National Eye Health Week
• Three year project
• Steering Group established for Wales
• Meeting in October to discuss activities for 2011
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Eye Health Week June 2010
• Optometry Wales - 7 Assembly Members visited Optometric practices across Wales, posters in 532 practices
• Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service for Wales
4 areas of Cardiff, spoke to 791 people about importance of screening and having a regular sight test
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Eye Health Week Helen Mary Jones AM in Llanelli Optometric Practice
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MEGAFOCUS
• Minority Ethnic Groups Association for Ophthalmic Care Uptake and Service Improvement in Wales
• Established by Sight Support
• Chaired by Raghu Ram, Consultant Ophthalmologist
• Glaucoma presentation at temple in Splott (ongoing programme of events)
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Omnibus questionnaire Wales• 530 people surveyed (face to face)
• 79% reported having a sight test in the last two years.
• 78% said having a sight test was very important
• Reasons given for not having a sight test in the last 5 years:
• didn't think they needed a test as they didn't have any problems with their eyes
• thought that they would be expected to buy a pair of spectacles and they couldn't afford it
• didn't have time
• already had frames and didn't want to change them
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RNIB Cymru Group
• Articles and case studies published in local press including the South Wales Echo and Western Mail
• Senedd awareness event for AMs and their staff; Kirsty Williams, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, agreed to wear Sim Specs for the day
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RNIB Cymru
• Peacocks provided 600 staff with free eye health checks
• Organisations posted information on intranets / internet including Public Health Wales, Directors of Public Health, Lloyds TSB, Unison, Neath and Port Talbot College, Royal College of Nursing, NHS Direct.
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RNIB Cymru
• 700 eye health messages were delivered face to face in venues around Merthyr, Pontypridd at Lloyds TSB Finance and at Disability Pride
• BBC Community Television Broadcast
1 million viewers
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Thank you for listening
• Questions?
• Ceri Jackson 029 20449 556