Correction: Assessing the effect of Independent Prescribing for community optometrists and referral rates to Hospital Eye Services in Scotland

Correction to: Eye

10.1038/s41433-020-1095-6published online 17 July 2020

Since the online publication of this article on 17^th July 2020, the authors have been made aware of issues with their reference manager software that affected some of the references.

Reference number 8: typo in surname Hernderson—should be Henderson.

Correct reference: Bolland S, Henderson R, Loffler G, Gordon G. Therapeutic prescribing for optometrists: an initial perspective. Optometry in Practice. 2011;12(3):87–98.

Reference number 11: Journal detail in brackets is incorrect—not “Bangkok”—should be “Oxford”.

Correct reference: Legge R, Strang NC, Loffler G. Distribution of optometric practices relative to deprivation index in Scotland. J Public Health (Oxf). 2018;40(2):389–396.

Reference number 18: Journal detail in brackets is incorrect—not “Bangkok”—should be “Oxford”.

Correct reference: Fung M, Myers P, Wasala P, Hirji N. A review of 1000 referrals to Walsall’s hospital eye service. J Public Health (Oxf). 2016;38(3):599–606.

Additionally, we (the publishers) misstated the access dates for references 4, 5, 10, and 17 (we stated the access dates as August 15^th 2020). We have corrected all these dates too.