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£1 million gift from patient-focused charity for new centre for advancing eye health

Friends of Moorfields Eye Hospital, the charity providing volunteer support and patient experience services at Moorfields Eye Hospital, has pledged £1 million to Moorfields Eye Charity towards a new centre for advancing eye health, opening in 2027.

£1.7 million funding for research into children’s eye health

Moorfields Eye Charity and the Medical Research Foundation are working in partnership to support research into childhood and adolescent eye health, putting £1.7 million of funding into this massively underfunded area of research.

World-class eye health centre in London named

A new, world-class centre for eye care, research, and education, opening in Camden in 2027 has been officially named. A partnership between Moorfields Eye Hospital, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and Moorfields Eye Charity, the new centre will be called...

£5 million award for world-leading research facilities within new eye health centre

The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust has awarded £5 million to UCL in partnership with Moorfields Eye Charity and Moorfields Eye Hospital to support Oriel – a centre for advancing eye health, opening in 2027.

Comparison of bleb grading and IOPs

The purpose of this study was to compare a novel anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) bleb grading system with a clinical bleb grading system (Moorfields) and both with intraocular pressure (IOP) levels following trabeculectomy surgery. The authors developed a...

AI breakthrough brings geographic atrophy treatment a step closer

A team led by Dr Konstantinos Balaskas at Moorfields Eye Hospital Reading Centre has developed a fully automated, deep-learning model (algorithm) that can detect and quantify geographic atrophy using standard optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans.

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For this issue’s instalment of The Culture Section, I was privileged to speak to Moorfield’s first prize competition winner Charlotte Zheng. Earlier this year in January, Charlotte wrote a patient reflection poem for the prize competition titled ‘Patient as Teacher...

AI detects eye changes that lead to sight loss in young people

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can accurately predict when young people with the sight- threatening eye condition kerataconus need treatment to stabilise the cornea and prevent loss of vision. Developed by researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of...

£1 million gift towards world-leading new centre for advancing eye health to enhance education

The Schroder Foundation and Family have donated £1 million to Moorfields Eye Charity towards the new centre for advancing eye health. The building is under construction and opening in 2027. Oriel is a joint initiative between Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS...

World-class centre for eye health reaches construction milestone

The new home for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology reached a significant construction milestone today. The completion of the concrete structure as part of the new centre for advancing eye health in St...

Contract signed to build Oriel, a state-of-the-art eye health centre

A £300 million contract has been awarded to Bouygues UK to build Oriel, a new eye care, research and education centre in Camden.