Expertise/other membership/roles
Vice Chair of the British and Irish Orthoptic Society (our professional body)
Member of the local eye health network
Member of the Dorset Ophthalmology Wide Group
Safeguarding Lead for Ophthalmology
Provider of Pan Dorset Vision Screening – over 190 schools and 8,000 reception age children visited every year in school across all of Dorset
- AHP’s are overlooked – it’s mainly “doctors and nurses” when the NHS is discussed. Without AHP’s, the NHS would grind to a halt, and millions of peoples’ quality of life would suffer
- We need to shout about what we do, especially the smaller AHP’s, and tell people what we do, the effect it can have, and how we can keep them healthy and independent
- Equity of access to high level services for ALL!