In 2025, we launched our three-year strategy: Shaping the Future of Local Eye Care. The strategy is centred around three pledges to enhance, enable, and empower individual LOCs and a unified LOC community to lead change, and improve population health.
Pledge 1: Enhance LOC Operations
The Enhance pledge focusses upon good governance and efficiencies of economies of scale. It provides support to LOCs in the running of committees and eliminating duplication, ensuring LOCs save time, money and resources.
This pledge commits to training and development opportunities to aid with LOC succession planning, ensuring efficient committees and developing LOC leaders of the future.
Pledge 2: Enable LOC Influence
The Enable pledge provides LOCs with the expertise and knowledge required to influence local service commissioning, in particular supporting population health management and strategic commissioning.
This will strengthen LOC voices in ICB negotiations, help LOCs tailor powerful templates to local service provision needs, and underline both the national expertise and local impact the sector delivers.
Pledge 3: Empower LOC Strategy Development
The Empower pledge supports LOCs to prepare for the future, to anticipate and lead change, and seize opportunities to position local optometry at the forefront of evolving healthcare priorities. LOCSU will support this ambition through arming LOCs with data and research through an accessible central knowledge hub, identifying upcoming changes and challenges while seeking to involve LOCs early in discussions through proactive strategy development.
This will lead to innovation and growth through evidence-backed planning, stronger collective influence, and a future-ready approach with a high profile for local optometry.
