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While primary care is fundamental to medicine and ophthalmology, it remains an amorphous concept. Riad and co-authors undertake a systematic description and definition of primary care as it relates to ophthalmology in the United Kingdom. The term primary care encompasses diverse healthcare systems, public policies, and even philosophies; the authors concede that no single definition of primary care can be complete. Its functions include being the first point of contact for a patient, where comprehensive care can be delivered as well as maintained over time, as performed by healthcare workers including ophthalmologists, nurses, optometrists, and social workers. The authors provide an overall scheme of how primary care ophthalmology functions, what its goals should be, and the criteria by which it should be assessed. They conclude that primary care ophthalmology would benefit from developing as a structured discipline, one that is recognised by all participants in the healthcare delivery system. See
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