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National Eye Health Week: the importance of regular eye examinations
Posted: 27/09/2024
National Eye Health Week is an annual event dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of eye health and the need for regular eye examinations. The campaign aims to highlight the significance of early detection and prompt treatment of potentially sight-altering conditions. Regular eye exams are crucial in detecting various eye problems......>>
NHS patients at risk of avoidable sight loss because of staff shortages
Posted: 06/04/2023
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) has recently published the outcome of its latest census of ophthalmology services in the NHS, taken over three weeks towards the end of 2022. The results suggest a stark deterioration over the previous 12 months and increasing concerns over backlogs in NHS outpatient eye care......>>
Diabetic retinopathy – how eye disease can result from diabetes
Posted: 17/11/2022
Monday 14 November 2022 was World Diabetes Day. Diabetes can have various health consequences, one of which is known as diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy can impair a person’s sight, lead to glaucoma, or even total blindness, and is one of the most common causes of blindness in people of a working age......>>
World Sight Day 2022 – focusing on the importance of regular sight test appointments
Posted: 13/10/2022
Over 2.2 billion people worldwide suffer from visual impairment and, sadly, almost half of those visual impairments could have been prevented or avoided. Thursday 13 October is World Sight Day. The charity responsible for the annual campaign, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), this year focuses on the importance of......>>
Reusable contact lenses ‘raise risk of eye infection’
Posted: 28/09/2022
Recent research conducted by teams at the University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital have found that wearers of reusable contact lenses are almost four times as likely to develop a sight-threatening eye infection, when compared with those who use daily disposable contact lenses......>>
‘Getting it Right First Time’ in ophthalmic surgery
Posted: 22/04/2022
Ophthalmology is the busiest NHS specialty in England. Before the pandemic, there were around 7.5 million outpatient appointments and 500,000 operations every year. The impact of the pandemic on health services has inevitably led to a large increase. With an ageing population, the volume of patients needing ophthalmic care is set to increase......>>
A catalogue of errors in eye surgery
Posted: 13/04/2022
Further criticism has arisen of a private eye hospital in London and the specialist eye surgeons connected with it. In 2019, an eye surgeon with some media following, Mr Bobby Qureshi, was struck off the General Medical Council’s register. Concern about his practice stemmed from his false representations about the likely success of proposed treatments......>>
Lockdown babies and the importance of statutory baby checks
Posted: 11/01/2022
The pandemic is attributed with causing unprecedented pressure on the NHS as providers have grappled with enormous and intense demand. Routine appointments were understandably delayed, cancelled or never made, as finite resources were prioritised to deliver urgent Covid-related treatment......>>
World Sight Day: focussing on the causes of sight loss
Posted: 14/10/2021
This article is one of a series of articles in support of World Sight Day and focusses on optic neuropathy, one of the most serious injuries experienced by patients that results in sight loss. The optic nerve transports signals from the eye to the brain, which then changes the signals into images......>>
World Sight Day 2021: Love Your Eyes
Posted: 13/10/2021
Every year, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) aims to promote eye health by raising awareness of the importance of protecting people’s vision. World Sight Day 2021 falls on Thursday 14 October and this year’s campaign is ‘Love Your Eyes’. It focuses on the role of eye tests in identifying potential problems early......>>

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