Four MPs—Julia Brännström Nordtug, Stig Atle Abrahamsen, Anne Grethe Hauan, and Kristian August Eilertsen—are asking the government to examine how optometrists can be deployed more widely to relieve pressure on eye health services, particularly for children and young people. The proposers argue that long wait times to see ophthalmologists are a persistent problem, and that optometrists' existing expertise is not being used systematically enough in patient care.
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The Storting asks the government to examine how optometrists can be deployed more broadly to support eye health services generally, and in particular to assess how children and young people's vision can be monitored more systematically.
The Storting asks the government to examine whether optometrists can take on a larger role in health services more broadly—for example, for patients with diabetes, cataracts, glaucoma, or macular degeneration, and for patients requiring vision rehabilitation after stroke or similar conditions.