Health services

With cataract surgery waiting times in Northern Ireland measured in years, OT  investigates the impact of delays on patients and the optometrists who care for them

OT  finds out about advances in hospital optometry with principal optometrist for education and training at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Paddy Gunn

OT  talks with the director of private care at Moorfields Eye Hospital

OT  spoke to the eye care provider about the effects of the pandemic and growing waiting lists for cataract surgery

May Kitchen, 77, resorted to paying for private cataract surgery after she was advised that she would have to wait up to four years for funded treatment

The clinic will only treat NHS patients and aims to help reduce waiting times for cataract treatment in the North East

Sunderland City Council has given plans to build a new purpose-built facility the go ahead

New data reveals that patients who received cataract surgery in 2021 had waited an average of nine months or more

A fleet of 40 minibuses has been transporting around 1000 patients each month to undergo cataract surgery

The funding boost aims to develop a blueprint for the post-pandemic recovery of elective surgery within the NHS