Health services

The private eye care provider is helping to ease the burden on the NHS after elective surgery was suspended in the wake of COVID-19

Jake Ternant, 23, became the first patient to receive the £600,000 Luxturna treatment through the NHS at Moorfields Eye Hospital

Mark Waine was perplexed at the lack of feedback when he moved from Australia to practise as an optometrist in the UK. He speaks to OT 

The €1m (£897,065) Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award has gone to groups combating blindness in Brazil

A 66-year-old patient who visited his optometrist with a piece of metal embedded in his eye received a telemedicine consultation as part of a new pilot

A Cumberland Infirmary patient was treated with steroid drops for three months which may have exacerbated an undetected infection

An eye drop has been approved for use by the NHS in Scotland for patients with severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis

A special edition of the WHO dispatch addresses The future of eye care in a changing world

The patients at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital are the first in the UK to trial the eyeWatch surgical implant

A new report has found that the AMD market across the US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and the UK is expected to grow at a rate of 8.9%