The National Health Service (Ophthalmic Services) (Wales) Regulations 2023

Information in the ophthalmic list

1.  A Local Health Board’s ophthalmic list must contain the following information—

(a) the full names of the persons the Local Health Board has included in it;

(b) each such person’s professional registration number, with—

(i) suffixed to that number, the organisational code given by the Welsh Ministers to the Local Health Board, and

(ii) prefixed to that number, the initials OL;

(c) in the case of an individual, where consent is given, that person’s date of birth or where consent is not given or in the case of a corporate optician, the date of their first registration in the register;

(d) the date that the person’s name was first included in the ophthalmic list;

(e) if the qualified practitioner has made arrangements with the Local Health Board to provide mobile services, that fact;

(f) if the qualified practitioner is a mobile practice, that fact;

(g) the addresses of any places in the locality of the Local Health Board at which the qualified practitioner has undertaken to provide primary ophthalmic services other than mobile services, or in the case of a mobile practice, the address to which correspondence in connection with such provision may be sent and the addresses of any day or residential centres visited regularly;

(h) particulars of the days on which and hours between which the qualified practitioner has agreed to provide primary ophthalmic services at those addresses, or in the case of visits to day or residential centres by a mobile practice, the months in which visits are intended to take place and the planned interval between such visits, as agreed with the Local Health Board;

(i) the names of every other qualified practitioner who is regularly engaged as a deputy, director or employee in assisting in the provision of primary ophthalmic services at any of those addresses or in the provision of mobile services.