Professor David Keegan:

We were here a number of years ago trying to advance the national strategic eye care review and a framework for a strategic eye care review. That was not adopted as policy at that point when the Government came in around that stage. We are bringing it in at regional level. We have a very good model-of-care document, but we need to manage the referral piece. For those in the community looking to access care, that is what this does. Regarding Mr. Mullaniff's point earlier about access to early rehabilitative measures through the ECLOs is another key piece. It would be good if the Government, the committee and policymakers could see that this is a template to ensure that the right to early access care is embedded in policy and that the staff working in the system have the support - and the right to that support - to allow them to deliver that care in a timely fashion. There is a great deal of stress and concern among my medical colleagues, the nurses, the administrators, the technicians and all the other the staff across the service. We know we are not getting to everybody quickly enough. There is a commitment in the plan for that . After that, we have rehabilitative care. Audit and research are embedded in this in order to allow us to continually learn. This will be quality assured, but we want to have an internal quality improvement process as well. Our goal is to have constant improvement.