CEO's Blog
Excerpt from Primary Care Commissioning Newsletter Issue 224 (Aug 2010)
"Now that financial responsibility for the GOS and optical voucher budgets has been devolved to PCTs, we have been asked to publish a guide to the way in which optical prescriptions are written and, in particular, details of how to transcribe them from Plus Cyl to Minus Cyl notation and vice versa. GOS 3 forms are written in different formats and historically PCO and SSA staff were trained to read them and transpose them. In recent years a lot of the corporate memory in PCTs and agencies has been lost. This simple three page guide will be of particular interest to optical services leads and to finance staff in support services agencies and PCTs who have responsibility for pricing GOS claims. PCC is grateful to Richard Booth, optometric adviser to NHS Western Cheshire, who prepared the guide."
This is interesting both from the point of view that the final transfer of power to the PCTs seems to have coincided with the government's plans to start abolishing them and also because Richard Booth seems to be the only person who has remembered the old magick.
