Transcript Politics to Progress - Can Political Interest Assist a Low

Multidisciplinary Working in
Low Vision Services
Lance Clarke, Chairman NALSVI
and
Mary Bairstow, Low Vision Services Implementation
Officer
Problems, Perceptions and
the Psychology of it all !
European Snapshot
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EIRE – information process
Spain – based on membership of ONCE
Germany – elderly people
France – early intervention
Netherlands – some long waiting times
Switzerland – good agency cooperation
Low Vision Service Committees
• Late 1990’s awareness of the
need for change in LV Services
• “More and better”
• Consensus meeting 1998 chaired Lord Jenkin
• Low vision report 1999
• Report set standards suggests
LV Committees
• 11 in 1999 now 68 March 2005
Major Influencing Factors
(taken from AMD Alliance Campaign 2003
Country Reports and Warwick Study)
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Funding
Professionalism
Bureaucracy
Information
Awareness
LVSC Successes
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Increased involvement VI people
Increased or new services
Increased influence, eg pathways
Increased networking inter agency
Increased awareness and
understanding of Low Vision issues
Five Markers for Successful
Change
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Clarity of purpose
Channelling energy
Challenging the ‘reality’
Covering ‘everything’
Collaboration
Quotations
One of the key strengths of Low Vision
Service Committees is their ability to
bring visually impaired people and
different service providers together.
Warwick Study 2004
Recommendation:
Set up Low Vision Service
Committees…!
References
• Low Vision Services - Recommendations for
future service delivery in the UK Low Vision
Services Consensus Group
• The Low Vision Project National (UK)
Evaluation Report – Gibson/Hundt/Stuttaford
- Health at Warwick 2004
• Country Reports … Low Vision Rehabilitation
- Age-Related Macular Disease Alliance
International Campaign Report 2003
• The Cost of Sight Loss in the UK – RNIB
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