Moorfields Eye Hospital at Potters Bar expands services
People living with severe eye conditions caused by retinal problems can now be treated closer to home thanks to a new service from Moorfields Eye Centre at Potters Bar.
The new medical retina and intravitreal injection service will run on Wednesdays, all day Thursdays and with an additional Fluorescein angiography service on alternate Mondays.
This service treats conditions which occur at the back of the eye including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy and retinal blood vessel blockages. These conditions are treated medically using drugs, eye drops or injection treatment.
The consultant in charge of the service Mr. Praveen Patel said “We are delighted to have been able to secure the funding to invest in this new service at Potters Bar.”
“As patients with conditions affecting the retina such as age-related macular degeneration have to be assessed on a regular basis often to provide on-going treatment, it can be difficult for patients to travel into central London. With the specialist AMD and diabetic retinopathy treatments being provided locally by Moorfields’ consultants, patients and carers can access more patient-centred treatment on their doorstep.”
Mr Praveen Patel also stressed the availability of new treatments through research stating “My consultant role at Moorfields involves a significant commitment to clinical research. When we see patients in the new medical retina clinic at Potters Bar we always discuss new research and how local patients can get involved both to help their condition and indeed to help future patients”.
Moorfields treats over 107,851 outpatients a year with medical retina conditions.
The majority of patients will be newly diagnosed patients seen at Potters Bar having being referred by their GP or optician.
Notes to editors
- Moorfields is one of the world’s leading eye hospitals, providing expertise in clinical care, research and education. We have provided excellence in eye care for more than 200 years and we continue to be at the forefront of new breakthroughs and developments. We are an integral part of one of the UK’s first academic health science centres, UCL Partners, and also one of the new academic health science networks. We were one of the first NHS organisations to achieve foundation trust status in 2004.
- We treat the entire range of eye diseases, from common complaints to rare conditions which require treatments not available anywhere else in the UK.
- We dealt with more than 600,000 patient attendances in 2014/15 across our 22 locations in and around London, enabling us to provide expert care closer to patients’ homes.
- Our specialist A&E dealt with more than 95,000 patient visits in the year 2014/15.
- With our academic partners at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields is recognised as a leading centre of excellence in eye and vision research. Together, we form one of the largest ophthalmic research sites in the world, with the largest patient population in Europe or the USA. We publish more scientific papers than any other eye and vision research site, and have an extensive joint research portfolio.
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