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SAS doctors 7th National Day report
If you were one of the crowd who attended, I’m sure you’ll agree that this was one of the best SAS meetings ever! Having the new College premises as our venue is a great help with accessibility as it is very close to Euston station – there were delegates from all 4 home nations this
Rob Johnston – A celebration of his life and work
Rob’s friends and colleagues are holding an event to celebrate his life and work at 2.30pm on Saturday 28th January, at the Bacon Theatre, Dean Close School in Cheltenham. We would like to extend an open invitation to anyone who knew Rob or who was influenced by his work, to join us for what we
Seminar Review: Primary Care Ophthalmology
I attended the recent Primary Care Ophthalmology meeting at the College organised by Stella Hornby. It was a thoroughly stimulating and thought-provoking meeting and definitely achieved its aim of enlightening the audience on the differing issues facing Primary Care Ophthalmology and the differing models of delivering it. Parul Desai gave us an excellent overview of
National Opthalmology Database (NOD) Audit Update
The data contributed in the first year (01 September 2015 – 31 August 2016) of the prospective audit is currently being cleaned and analysed by the NOD statistician. The audit report, which is expected to be published in March 2017 will include case complexity adjusted outcomes for surgical complications and visual acuity loss from cataract
Fungal Endophthalmitis
Moorfields Eye Hospital is currently investigating an unusually high rate of fungal infections resulting from corneal graft surgery. Moorfields has identified that a number of patients have developed fungal endophthalmitis following corneal graft surgery since June 2016. A full investigation is underway to determine the cause of these infections. It has been noted that the