Health services
The latest news about health services relating to eye care
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Artificial intelligence has been harnessed to field questions on a new £344m proposal to shift Moorfields Eye Hospital to a new building in King’s Cross
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One in 12 NHS workers have faced harassment in the past year according to a new report from the public services union Unison
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CHKS Top Hospitals Awards have recognised Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London Hospitals for data quality in clinical coding
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The proportion of chairs and non-executive directors from black and minority ethnic backgrounds has fallen from 15% to 8% since 2010
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The services opened in May 2018 in order to deliver high quality hospital expertise closer to patients’ homes
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Patients are being screened to see if they meet visual acuity thresholds
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Principal optometrist in urgent care and contact lenses at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Nathanael Anguige, discusses the benefits that the hospital’s urgent care clinics bring patients and practitioners
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Despite its proven effectiveness, the majority of clinical commissioning groups list cataract surgery as a “procedure of limited clinical value”
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More women than men are practising optometry in England and Wales according to the latest General Ophthalmic Services workforce data
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