Health services

The Government has prioritised investment in GPs, community care and mental health as part of its blueprint for the next decade

MP for Cleethorpes, Martin Vickers, discussed NHS services that practices deliver in addition to sight tests on a visit to Smith and Walker Optometrists

“The time for surgery is when a patient has symptoms”

Laura de Benito-Llopis speaks to OT  about referring patients with red eye

NHS workers have been discouraged from stockpiling medicines in a letter describing plans for the “unlikely scenario” of an EU exit without agreement

Plans to ease referral challenges in the wake of a veto on fax machines are set to be announced in January

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

The planned St Pancras facility is one of 75 projects that will receive a boost through investment in the long-term future of the NHS

Workforce challenges now present a “greater threat” than funding shortfalls, according to new Nuffield Trust analysis

Luxtura is the first one-time gene therapy to improve visual acuity in people with rare inherited retinal disease