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The results of the last survey Feb25

4 February 2025 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Cataract

*Please be aware that this data does not form part of a peer reviewed research study. The information therein should not be relied upon for clinical purposes but instead used as a guide for clinical practice and reflection. The sample...

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The results of the last survey Dec24

4 December 2024 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Cataract

This edition’s survey results are fascinating. They focus more on your impressions and views rather than on the facts of your clinical practice. Effectively I asked you to take the role of an expert and comment on the cases I...

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The results of the last survey Oct24

3 October 2024 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Glaucoma

*Please be aware that this data does not form part of a peer reviewed research study. The information therein should not be relied upon for clinical purposes but instead used as a guide for clinical practice and reflection. The sample...

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The results of the last survey Aug24

2 August 2024 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Glaucoma

In the first case we were faced with a 55-year-old patient with narrow, potentially occludable drainage angles, no significant cataract, and persistently raised intraocular pressures (IOPs) of 28mmHg with early disc compromise, and normal vision in each eye. It is...

Results of survey October 2020

The results of the last survey Oct20

5 October 2020 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General

The point of this series is to find variations in practice and to raise them to you, the readership, so you can review and reflect upon them. I am aware there is not always a ‘correct’ way of doing things,...

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The results of the last survey Aug 2020

5 August 2020 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General

Once more I would like to thank those of you who took the time to complete the last edition’s survey. It was highly pertinent to what we are facing now. It is clear that our services have been markedly disrupted....

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The results of the last survey Jun 2020

5 June 2020 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General

Firstly, my sincere thanks to those of you who responded to last edition’s survey. We had a record response. Laser was never my most exciting clinical treatment, but in this environment how I wish for even that degree of patient...

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A missed opportunity

1 February 2019 | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Back in 2000 Sir Liam Donaldson wrote a piece of work commissioned by the then Secretary of State for Health entitled “An Organisation with a Memory”. We are now 18 years on and still some of the recommendations from them...

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The most frequent complaints and claims in ophthalmology – a Medical Protection Society (MPS) analysis

4 December 2018 | John Jolly, Pallavi Bradshaw | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General

The authors look at the reasons behind medico-legal cases reported to MPS and share key learning points. Complications following ophthalmology surgery are rare, however, medico-legal cases are not uncommon due to the significant impact they can have on patients’ lifestyles....

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