Recruit people who will act not just listen onto the panel. Call for the panel to adopt the Portfolio of Indicators as springboard for useful statistics. Create a specific partnership with purpose (and working groups which reflect this). Decide what we are looking to change with the public, what outcomes are we looking for? Prevention, cures and statistics panel (Facilitator: Julia Marwood) General Discussion There was a general question about is / who are Vision UK’? The ‘what consensus was that Vision UK had an advocacy & facilitation role. Overwhelmingly, amongst all those present at the table, Research was a major topic for discussion with everyone feeling that this area was of utmost priority to tackle. It was felt that there was an urgent need to look at how research is funded across the eye health sector to ensure that we could effectively identify what do we need to know, what do we know (and accept) already, what are the gaps, what action do we need to take to close that gap? There needs to be a focus on in all research undertaken. ‘value’ It was felt that maybe should be a panel in its own right as the ‘Research’ success factor to achieving across all four panels will be the availability of quality data. The benefit of such an approach being that there would be ‘one voice’, working collaboratively across the sector, to lobby Government for more research funding. Or, if not it’s own panel, should be a key objective for the ‘Research’ panel to focus on. ‘Epidemiology’ It was felt that there was a clear overlap across the four panels and there was concern about duplication of effort, with a challenge as to whether you could reduce this and fit the key objectives of the P, C & T panel into the epidemiology and service panels? Objectives
Recruit people who will act not just listen onto the panel. Call for the panel to adopt the Portfolio of Indicators as springboard for useful statistics. Create a specific partnership with purpose (and working groups which reflect this). Decide what we are looking to change with the public, what outcomes are we looking for? Prevention, cures and statistics panel (Facilitator: Julia Marwood) General Discussion There was a general question about ‘what is / who are Vision UK’? The consensus was that Vision UK had an advocacy & facilitation role. Overwhelmingly, amongst all those present at the table, Research was a major topic for discussion with everyone feeling that this area was of utmost priority to tackle. It was felt that there was an urgent need to look at how research is funded across the eye health sector to ensure that we could effectively identify what do we need to know, what do we know (and accept) already, what are the gaps, what action do we need to take to close that gap? There needs to be a focus on ‘value’ in all research undertaken. It was felt that maybe ‘Research’ should be a panel in its own right as the success factor to achieving across all four panels will be the availability of quality data. The benefit of such an approach being that there would be ‘one voice’, working collaboratively across the sector, to lobby Government for more research funding. Or, if not it’s own panel, ‘Research’ should be a key objective for the ‘Epidemiology’ panel to focus on. It was felt that there was a clear overlap across the four panels and there was concern about duplication of effort, with a challenge as to whether you could reduce this and fit the key objectives of the P, C & T panel into the epidemiology and service panels? Objectives
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