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

Optometry collaborative

13.—(1) A contractor must—

(a) attend at least four meetings of the relevant optometry collaborative in each financial year, and

(b) vote in the election of the optometric lead of the relevant optometry collaborative (and any vote regarding that person’s continued appointment).

(2) For the purposes of complying with the requirements in sub-paragraph (1), a contractor may appoint an individual who is an optometrist, an ophthalmic medical practitioner or a dispensing optician to act on the contractor’s behalf.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph—

“optometric lead” (“arweinydd optometreg”) means the person elected by an optometry collaborative to represent it within a primary care cluster;

“optometry collaborative” (“cydweithredfa optometreg”) means a group of contractors providing primary ophthalmic services within the geographic area of the same primary care cluster;

“primary care cluster” (“clwstwr gofal sylfaenol”) means a group of health and social care providers that have agreed to work collaboratively to deliver primary care services across a specified geographical area;

“relevant optometry collaborative” (“cydweithredfa optometreg berthnasol”) means the optometry collaborative in whose area the contractor provides primary ophthalmic services.