Starting Point is a guide for parents and carers, whose child has a vision impairment. The leaflets were introduced in 2016 and have been re-launched following feedback from service-users. They are written in a positive and encouraging style and direct patients and their families to the new sight advice FAQs.
The new leaflet is pictured here and is available to order from info@visionuk.org.uk and to download from: https://www.visionuk.org.uk/starting-point-leaflet/
Written information helps patients and families to recall the information given to them during an appointment and the leaflet signposts to further information. Laura Hughes, mother of a vision impaired daughter, joined Charlotte for the presentation and spoke of what it was like to leave hospital with only the certificate of vision impairment in her hand. Laura believes Starting Point will give parents and carers just that – a Starting Point for where they can find guidance and support and receive early intervention.
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Please:
- Give a Starting Point leaflet to every parent/carer of a paediatric patient with visual impairment at the point of diagnosis
- Ask newly diagnosed patients if they have received Starting Point
- Keep a supply of Starting Point leaflets in your clinic
- Order more leaflets if you run out!
Charlotte Codina is pictured here with Anne Marie Fleming from the RNIB, at whose stand delegates were able to pick up packs of Starting Point leaflets to take back to their clinics.
If you have comments or feedback on Starting Point please contact Mairy.bairstow@visionuk.org.uk
