surgeryPurpose - A guideline to the practice of cataract surgery was produced in 2004 by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. This complemented a guideline to best practice produced in 2000 by the NHS Executiv
Even if you are accepted for cataract surgery on the NHS, you will face long wait times (up to 6 months and in some cases, even longer). The NHS will operate on one eye and you will have to wait a number of months to have the second eye treated. It could mean you face a certai...
This allowed us to highlight models of CS delivery with up to 14 cases per 4-hour list [34] and more if immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS) was undertaken [35, 36]. NHS units that had the highest productivity had the longest duration of staff breaks, indicating that ...
NHS Cataract Referrals Optegra, as your cataract expert, also offers NHS standard cataract treatment, delivering excellent outcomes within weeks of referral. To learn more about how to get referred to Optegra from theNHS click here. Please note, elective treatments including laser eye surgery, lens...
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Constituting ~0.5% of all NHS cataract operations, national provision of immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS) is limited. Combining offering ISBCS within a novel one-stop see-and-treat (S&T) cataract pathway would offer patients the opportunity for two cataract operations in a ...
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Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery, an advanced technology, can automate several steps; initial data show no superiority of this approach over current techniques, but the results of many large clinical trials are pending. The greatest challenge remains the growing ‘backlog’ of patients with...
This cohort study describes visual acuity and refractive error outcomes, as well as rates of amblyopia, glaucoma, and additional eye surgery, during the
The Cochrane Database for Systematic Reviews found cost savings associated with same-day discharge (SDD) cataract surgery versus in-patient cataract surgery; however, the evi- dence regarding postoperative complications was inconclu- sive because the effect estimates were imprecise [5]. The ne- c...