* Developing their local community to ensure that they include a wider range of stakeholders such as cross boundary
LOCs, the networks with clinical commissioning groups and ther relationship with the public.
Can you give details of the enhanced services contracts your
LOC provides?
An important topic for LOCSU's 2013 leadership group and all
LOC officers is to examine how leaders build effective working relationships across the optical community, which supports collaborative working, enabling local leaders to influence the future of community eye care.
Optometrist and
LOC Support Unit (LOCSU) optical lead, Dharmesh Patel (pictured below), drafted the bid which was later approved by the Royal Vale and South Cheshire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) for the provision of an ocular hypertension monitoring service in the area.
We have been working closely with Optometry Wales (OW) over the past few months to review our support arrangements for
LOCs and Regional Optical Committees (ROCs), following the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 reforms in England.
"Under the new NHS, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) will be responsible for local eye care services (excluding General Ophthalmic Services), and there are examples of where CCGs are already looking for
LOCs to form single provider companies to contract for local services.
Because of its size, when negotiating for local contracts, the committee can claim to represent a greater number of practitioners and, because it deals with different PCTs, members of the
LOC have greater experience in securing contracts.
In a statement produced by the LOCSU (the
LOC Support Unit), the Unit announced: 'The process of adopting the revised constitution will ensure that all
LOC members are clear on the function and accountability of the committee.
Pursuant to each substitute
LOC, the bank is obligated to make regularly scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the bonds in addition to payments due upon maturity, and redemption, as well as purchase price for tendered bonds.
LOCs will host an annual general meeting once a year and, while anyone can attend as an observer, you can only be involved in the decisions being made if you are on the committee.
Glass solved some of the problems, but it was not until scientists learned to use molds to mass-produce
LOCs in malleable plastics that research on
LOC applications took off.
LOCs are typically fabricated using silicon or plastic substrates, but they can also be fabricated on paper (cellulose fibers) as a low-cost, field-deployable, and easy-to-use altemative to conventional
LOC devices.
Wilhelm has yet to see such deterioration in cost or access to
LOCs that self insurance ceases to be viable.
a: I've started
locs using various techniques: the comb/coil, twisting, braiding, hand coiling, as well as
loc extensions.
