New PHSO clinical standard
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has introduced a new clinical standard – the Ombudsman’s Clinical Standard. For complaints about NHS clinical care and treatment in England, PHSO aims to establish what would have been good clinical care and treatment in the situation complained about and whether what actually happened fell short of that.
Second Prospective Annual Report of the NOD Audit Published
The second prospective National Ophthalmology Database (NOD) Audit report on cataract surgery performed in England and Wales during the 2016 to 2017 audit year was published on 9 August 2018. The report includes data on 183,812 eligible cataract operations undertaken between 01 September 2016 and 31 August 2017 by 83 NHS cataract surgical centres in
NICE serious eye disorders quality standard consultation
The NICE serious eye disorders quality standard consultation will run from 10/09/2018 to 08/10/2018. Registered stakeholders will be notified on the day the consultation opens with instructions on how to submit comments. For further information on the quality standard or the NICE quality standards programme in general please see the links below. Serious eye disorders
Artificial intelligence as good as experts at detecting eye diseases
This week news surfaced of an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, DeepMind Health and University College London (UCL) Institute of Ophthalmology, which can recommend the correct referral decision for over 50 eye diseases. The AI system can recommend the correct referral decision with 94% accuracy, which
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