Eye group looks to expand

Increased referrals to consultants are the aim of eye hospital group Optegra’s new team of professional partnership managers.

They aim to build relationships with optometrists, GPs, clinical commissioning groups and local strategic partners. Optegra’s interim managing director John Behrendt said: ‘It is important to have a team who focus entirely on developing relationships with the ophthalmic and medical community local to each of our hospitals.

‘With six hospitals and a number of outreach clinics around the UK, we want to ensure that local medical professionals, both privately and across the NHS, are fully aware of how Optegra can support and treat their patients.’

The professional partnership managers are:

• Julieanne Page, Solent;
• Katy Ibbitson, Yorkshire;
• Dee Rana, Birmingham;
• Leyana Martin, Surrey;
• Amanda Outram, Manchester
• Alan Hopley, London.