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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sax" data-source="post: 2433079" data-attributes="member: 545530">The glaucoma testing frequency is more variable - annual checks for glaucoma are only viable if patients are compliant with their medication regime and this is notoriously bad for eye drops for elderly patients, who don't see immediate consequences for non-compliance. So they'd need to read the file for every patient to work out if a retinopathy test is required or not each time a patient comes in for a check to combine them. The logic from the hospital point of view that its easier to make the patient do more work and travel twice, rather than add to their workload one iota. At least with Covid, they no longer pile up the outpatient waiting rooms like a log stack in the belief that this will help maximise the efficiency of their operations; instead mostly just maximising vulnerable peoples exposure to disease transfer while they wait 1 hr to be seen. Lets hope they keep it that way going forward.</blockquote>

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