Joint letter from medical Royal Colleges to David Cameron
Presidents and leaders of 13 organisations have authored a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to intervene in the debate over the new contract for junior doctors to ‘bring both parties back to the negotiating table… and initiate an honest debate about the serious difficulties facing UK health services’. You can read this letter online
The Guardian publishes RCOphth Lay Advisory Group letter concerning junior doctor contract
The RCOphth Lay Advisory Group (LAG) are a group of volunteers actively involved in the work of the RCOphth. They include members who have some or no previous background in health or eye matters, including related organisations and some have been or are eye patients. The group also includes clinician members of the RCOphth including
VISION 2020 UK secures funding for data collection through CVI
VISION 2020 UK has secured funding for data collection through the Certificate of Vision Impairment. You can read about the CVI progrmme here on the RCOphth website. VISION 2020 UK, the umbrella organisation which leads collaboration and co-operation between organisations across the eye health and sight loss sectors, has secured funding for data collection based on
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists publish the first annual report of the National Ophthalmology Database Audit
Cataract surgery is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in the UK with around 330,000 operations performed yearly in England and 16,000 in Wales. In the first annual report of the National Ophthalmology Database Audit, published by The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, ‘historic’ or ‘legacy’ data have been used to highlight data completeness
VISION 2020 UK seek lay members to join Prevelance Study Project Board
VISION 2020 UK are seeking lay members to join The United Kingdom Eye Survey as part of the Prevalence Study Project board. What is The United Kingdom Eye Survey? The United Kingdom Eye Survey is a large research project to find out about the eye health of people living in the UK. Why is the