Optometrists to prescribe wider range of eye drugs to relieve GPs, Government proposes

Some common and emergency eye conditions could be treated with drugs obtained on the high street, under Government proposals to change the prescribing rules. The move would help alleviate pressure on GPs and hospital eye services and ties in with more eye services being commissioned in the community, the proposals said. Under the recommendations, high-street The post Optometrists to prescribe wider range of eye drugs to relieve GPs, Government proposes appeared first on Pulse Today.