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From paper to digital: Real lessons for a sustainable NHS digital future
Portsmouth's OpenEyes implementation reveals why healthcare digital transformation needs honest evaluation, proper clinical leadership resourcing and realistic expectations about technology efficiency promises. Like many eye departments across the NHS, we at Portsmouth were drowning in paper. Notes went missing, handwriting...Deliberate darkness: The systematic weaponisation of blinding in global protests
As eyecare professionals, we spend our entire professional lives fighting to preserve light. We train to master the delicate microscopic topography of the cornea, the retina and the optic nerve, all with the objective of saving our patients from the...Empowering primary care patients registered blind or partially sighted
With two million people in the UK living with visual impairment [1], being able to provide equitable and effective communication to this group of patients is essential in primary care. Yet, as highlighted by research conducted by Sight Loss Councils,...NHS England national ophthalmic diagnostics and imaging data collection analysis
The National Physiological Science Data Collections are part of NHS England’s Diagnostic Transformation programme which was established following Professor Mike Richards review of Diagnostic services. A key recommendation was to establish data collections to make up for the lack of...Collaborative care: The advanced practitioner in paediatric ophthalmology
In response to the increasing paediatric workforce shortage the landscape of paediatric ophthalmology is shifting [1]. As we face a striking surge in demand accompanied by increasingly complex patient profiles, alternative models of care are beginning to evolve. The advanced...
Risk calculation variability over time in OHT
In this study the authors aimed to assess the variability of the well documented risk model from the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) that identified higher intraocular pressure (IOP), older age, lower central corneal thickness (CCT), greater vertical cup-to-disc ratio...
IOP in children with uveitis
This is a retrospective study of paediatric uveitis (<16-years-old) between July 2002 to June 2016 of a total of 320 children from a single centre: 17.2 % (55/320 patients) developed raised IOP requiring therapy; 11.5% of eyes required glaucoma surgery...
