Moorfields opens its doors for Open House London 2013

The award-winning children’s eye centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital is opening its doors for Open House London Weekend, the capital’s greatest architectural showcase, on Saturday 21 September 2013.

Tours of centre will be led by architects from Penoyre and Prasad, the practice that designed the building, providing a real insight into the building’s design.

The Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre at Moorfields is a dedicated treatment centre for children’s eye conditions that combines functional excellence with an award winning and non-institutional design.

Tours will take place every 30 minutes between 11am and 1pm on Saturday 21 September only on a first-come, first-served basis, with last entry at 12.30pm.  Entry to the children’s centre is via Peerless Street, EC1V 9EZ.

To find out more about other events as part of Open House London 2013, please visit www.open-city.org.uk.

 

 

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 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 475,000 patient visits in 2011/12 at our main hospital base in London’s City Road and at 19 other sites in and around the capital, enabling us to provide expert care closer to patients’ homes.
  • With our research partners at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, we run one of the largest ophthalmic research programmes in the world and have the highest measure of scientific productivity and impact in the world for our research activity.
  • For further information, please visit www.moorfields.nhs.uk.

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