Improving the information provided to people losing their sight at the time of Certification Mark Godfrey

Background RNIB, Blind Veterans and ADASS have had a series of meetings over the past two years with DH regarding the CVI form and the process DH added a question to the Care Act consultation, asking if RNIB should have access to contact details of newly certified people RNIB, Guide Dogs and the Certification office met to consider a revised process and agreed the need for a non-branded information pack Cross sector task group established to design an information pack

Principles agreed The branding should be joint, neutral or NHS? It should be co-produced with people who have recent experience of the CVI process We should take the best of what is already available The focus should be on NHS England initially

Cross Sector Task Group Project Sponsor: Philippa Simkiss, RNIB Project Lead: Mark Godfrey Project Members: Carl Freeman – Guide Dogs Lara King – Blind Veterans UK Alison Oliver - Visionary Richard Wormald, CVI Moorfields Pete Fahy, ADASS Other groups to be kept informed, provide information, and comment on the draft information pack

Next steps Identifying people with recent experience of the CVI process interested in participating in this work Initial conversations with 6-8 people and one/two co-production events to take place at the end of September (London and Birmingham) Identification and review of good practice and information currently available Information pack to be ready by the end of October