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‘Top tips’ for new consultants
Are you an experienced consultant? What do you now wish you had known when you first qualified? We’d like to hear your ‘Top tips’. ‘Tips’ for new consultants We’re asking experienced consultants to share one piece of advice with new consultants as we open bookings for our training course for new consultants. Wait to make
Atlas of variation in risk factors and healthcare for vision in England
This new ‘Vision Atlas’ represents the first Public Health England (PHE) output solely focused on eye health. Ophthalmology is the largest outpatient specialty in England. The atlas shows there were 9 million outpatient attendances for vision in 2019/20. Look at the Atlas of variation New analyses of hospital eye services The atlas brings together 32
Resources to help you deliver safe, sustainable and efficient cataract surgery
In conjunction with the release of our Joint statement: Interim recommendations to discharge patients following routine uncomplicated cataract surgery with The College of Optometrists, we want to highlight RCOphth resources that will help members deliver safe, sustainable, and efficient cataract services. Cataract surgery is the UK’s most common elective operation, with approximately half a million
Glaucoma, Isolation and Kindness: the role opthamologists play in creating a brighter world
We asked Professor Peter Shah (BSc (Hons), MB ChB, FRCOphth, FRCP Edin, MA (Distinction), Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Institute for Glaucoma Research, Institute of Translational Medicine, UHB. Visiting Professor at University College London, Honorary Professor of Glaucoma, Centre for Health & Social Care Improvement, University of Wolverhampton and
Scaling up video consultation capabilities in ophthalmology services: The experience at Moorfields
By Peter Thomas, David Probert and Hugh McCaughey The NHS Long Term Plan set out NHS England and NHS Improvement’s ambition to transform outpatient appointments. With the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak, these efforts were accelerated with all NHS trusts and foundation trusts supported to roll out video consultations to their patients. The technology is