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Interim recommendations uncomplicated cataract surgery

Joint statement: Interim recommendations to discharge patients following routine uncomplicated cataract surgery

  The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) and The College of Optometrists are issuing interim recommendations on routine cataract care to help rapidly increase hospital capacity to see patients with urgent, complex or sight threatening disease. The combination of pre-existing capacity constraints and the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to record numbers of