BEECS Constitution – (Dated - 20.4.2016)
“The British Emergency Eye Care Society (BEECS) was founded in 2013 with the aim of bringing together practitioners in the United Kingdom who provide acute ophthalmology
services within their institutions. The inaugural meeting was held at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists on 18 October 2013.”
The aims of the Society are:
- To facilitate best practice in emergency eye care provision and promote excellence in patient care
- To establish wider recognition of Emergency Eye Care as a sub-speciality
- To provide a forum for the purpose of sharing resources, knowledge and experience.
- To promote and support research in emergency eye care.
- To formalise training and career opportunities for all ophthalmologists and encourage collaborative working practices
Committee Members
- Committee membership will be open to all NHS hospital eye service practitioners.
Executive Offices
- It was agreed that the society needed a small committee of executive officers. In the first instance these will be held for 3-5 years to facilitate continuity during the initial phase of the society.
- After this the officers will be held for a period of 2 years, renewable once.
- The office appointments of treasurer, secretary, president and vice president will be held by an Ophthalmologist on the specialist register.
- Prospective executive officers will be elected at the annual general meeting, having been nominated and seconded by any member (one of whom must be a committee member).
- Only members who are present at the AGM (i.e. not just committee members) will be eligible to cast a vote.
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
Other committee members will include:
- Annual meeting organiser(s)
- Trainee Representative for two years (renewable)
- Optometry representative for two years (renewable)
- Nursing representative for two years (renewable)
For a BEECS meeting to be considered quorate, at least five committee members need to be present at least two of whom are executive committee members. For changes in the constitution, the majority of the committee has to be present including at least three executive committee members and the decision to change the constitution should be unanimous amongst those present, and there should be no known objections from the absent executive member.
Membership
Inclusion Criteria - It was agreed that members must be currently providing regular emergency eye care in a secondary care setting
This updated constitution was agreed unanimously by the BEECS committee including all executive committee members other than Claire Daniel who was absent.
