OPTICAL PRACTICE - West Kent

For details on how to join APCOS, please contact Kent & Medway CCG at [email protected].

Email referral to APCOS (via NHS.net email address): [email protected]

Please include patient’s telephone number as they will be contacted directly by telephone. APCOS emails are read hourly and an email response is sent to the referrer, advising triaging outcome. Patients will either be sent to Maidstone Hospital; APCOS same day appointment or COT early appointment but not same day. Patients will be seen by clinicians with extended roles; either specialist registered independent prescribing optometrists or a GPwER:

Adults – refer to Primary Care Bookings Service (PCBS). Only under 16’s should be referred to GP for Ophthalmic problems.

Referrals can be emailed (via NHS.net email account) to [email protected]

Telephone: 01622 228395 (Ophthalmology)

Any queries or issues, please contact Ophthalmology on the telephone number above.

Optometrists can refer directly, via NHS.net email, to the acute Community Ophthalmology Service:

[email protected]

Rapid Access: [email protected]

Tel no: 01622 226228 (if referral requires urgent advice or action)

Maidstone Wet AMD: [email protected]