1. Chapeltown Eye Health Project Dr. Andy Cassels-Brown Consultant Public Health Ophthalmology

2. Context & Background Low-uptake of NHS funded sight tests in Leeds Individuals presenting at clinics with late stages of glaucoma Lack of optical provision in Chapeltown High BME population in Chapeltown

3. What we did: Increasing awareness within specific communities – West Indian Carnival Glaucoma Awareness Week in Chapeltown – educating the community (free sight tests for everyone) Community eye health training sessions for front line staff Library project set-up

4. West Indian Carnival

5. Awareness Week

6. Eye Clinic

7. Working in partnership with the Leeds Libraries Community Health Educators engaging with the public Drop-in clinic Low cost frames / Free NHS prescriptions

8. Outcomes Data collection included: Age Ethnicity GOS1 eligibility / category Publicity

9. Age

10. Ethnicity

11. GOS1

12. Category – GOS1

13. Referral

14. Publicity

15. Future Directions: Leeds University research project Formal evaluation Increase GOS1 uptake in Leeds

16. Award Winning Project

17. Questions