Management of patients seen within minor eye conditions scheme (MECS)
| MECS visit outcome | Patients, n (%) |
| Retained in optometric practice | 1595 (75.1) |
| Management of ocular pathology in practice | 1359 (64.0) |
| No ocular pathology—discharged | 236 (11.1) |
| Referral to King’s College Hospital | 220 (10.4) |
| Referral to Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital | 154 (7.3) |
| Referral to other hospital eye services | 26 (1.2) |
| Referral to general practitioner | 122 (5.7) |