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Responding to the Public Accounts Committee inquiry on ‘Managing NHS backlogs & waiting times’, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) has stressed the need for consistent national coordination and resourcing of proven eye care innovations alongside an upskilling of the workforce and implementation of integrated pathways, if long backlogs and waiting times for both diagnostic and surgical appointments are to be reduced.

This week (19 – 23 June) is Clinical Audit Awareness Week, a national annual campaign that promotes and celebrates the impact of clinical audits in healthcare. RCOphth runs the world renowned National Ophthalmology Database Audit and is recognised by clinicians, NICE, GIRFT and industry as an important safety and research tool that is used to […]

Anthony Khawaja is a clinician scientist, who splits his time between patient care and research. He is an Honorary Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon specialising in glaucoma at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and Professor of Ophthalmology at University College London (UCL), where he leads a data science research group. Anthony undertook his medical training at the University of […]

  RCOphth President Professor Bernie Chang explains the positive action being taken by NHS England through its cataract specification, which the College has supported to develop. With the publication last week of its service specification for cataract surgery, NHS England has taken an important step in beginning to address the challenges to long term sustainable […]