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Evidence shows hand-holding volunteers help significantly reduce anxiety for patients undergoing eye procedure

15 January 2024 | Helpforce, Handholding, Charity, Friends of Moorfields, Wellbeing, Patient experience, Anxiety
New evidence from an evaluation carried out by Helpforce for Friends of Moorfields shows that a volunteer’s support can help patients while they have eye surgery under local anaesthetic. 94% say the support helped them feel less anxious.

£1 million boost for wireless innovations to improve patient care

29 February 2024 | NHS, patient care, infrastructure, funding, technology, healthcare
Trials of new wireless technologies to help improve patient care and strengthen connectivity in A&Es and ambulance bays are set to launch across seven NHS trusts, following new funding from NHS England.

Haag-Streit launches Eyesi Indirect Ophthalmoscope ROP simulator for retinal examinations on preterm infants

5 April 2024 | Research & Development
The Eyesi Indirect ROP is a mixed-reality simulator that offers a highly immersive training environment for proper device handling, with an embedded, didactically structured simulator curriculum to teach the diagnostic skills required for correct ROP classification.

SCONe Project seeks participants for patient and public involvement group to revolutionise AMD research

29 April 2024 | baljean dhillon, SCONe, project, research, scotland, edinburgh, AMD, call to action
The SCONe project, run by optometrists, ophthalmologists, and researchers from the University of Edinburgh, and funded by Sight Scotland, is appealing for participants to take part in a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) group focused on revolutionising the detection and management of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).

250 QFFD bicycles make sight saving care possible in rural Zambia

3 June 2024 | Orbis, charity, international, children, eyecare, global, ophthalmology, Zambia, Africa, rural
Sight-saving charity Orbis, is delivering a project in the Copperbelt province of Zambia, tackling the difficulties of delivering eye care in rural areas by providing 250 bikes to Community Eye Health Champions (CEHCs).

Increasing access to eye care through community outreach clinics in Uganda

1 June 2019 | | Ophthalmology, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, Imaging, Glaucoma
There has been a VISION 2020 LINK between Mulago Hospital and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda and the Royal Free Hospital, London, since 2010. There have been regular training visits between teams from the eye departments at Mulago and the...

‘At risk’ corneas are more easily identified with SCORE

6 June 2024 | cornea, refractive, industry, Heidelberg, LASIK, SCORE
Risk assessment of post-LASIK corneal ectasia in refractive surgery patients is now a more exact, objective, evaluation thanks to the work of Heidelberg Engineering and a leading research partner in Paris.

What's trending Feb/Mar 2022

1 February 2022 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry, Cataract and Refractive, Orbit
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending over the last few weeks. British man fitted with 3D printed eye Steve Verze of London has required a prosthetic eye for over 20 years. On 25 November 2021,...

The results of the last survey Jun22

1 June 2022 | | Ophthalmology, Cataract and Refractive, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Thank you once more for your time in answering the latest survey. The first question relates to the number of staff required for a routine cataract list. There was a big variance in practice. Some of us are luckier than...

A glossary

5 October 2020 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry
After a week on call grading what feels like 13 billion referrals I decided it might be useful to come up with a glossary that might help other people in some way to decipher the true meaning behind every repetitive...

100 years since Sir William Duke-Elder graduated from the University of St Andrews

2 February 2024 | | Ophthalmology
With sincere thanks to Andrew King, Ophthalmic Optician and owner of Andrew King Opticians near Glasgow, for his extensive research into Duke-Elder’s life.' Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder. Photo credit: Edward Irvine Halliday, Institute of Ophthalmology. In the world of ophthalmology,...

“Robot performs cataract surgery on patient!”

1 June 2018 | Cataract and Refractive
Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related news stories and asks which are scientific reality and which are ‘fake news’. Headline: “Robot performs cataract surgery on patient!” Twenty-five years ago when Eye News launched, a news headline such...