Over the past few months I have been developing a comprehensive downloadable patient guide to cataract assessment and treatment. This is a clearly set out, illustrated guide designed to support patients from the point of referral through to the aftercare following surgery. For optometrists, this guide offers a high quality resource that you can sign-post […]
Assessing patients with cataract is something that almost every Eyecare professional is involved in to some degree due to the volume of patients requiring treatment for this condition. Community optometrists are on the front line of detecting and referring patients with cataract while clinicians in the hospital service and other cataract surgery providers are involved in the assessment […]
Optometrists are getting more and more involved in the care of post-operative cataract patients, both in hospital and in community practice. I have recently authored an article looking at this area in order to give some clinical tips on how to carry out these assessments. This is now published in the August edition of Optometry […]
A reasonable part of my current hospital role is involved in carrying out cataract assessment clinics, for those patients referred into the hospital for consideration of cataract surgery. These referrals mainly come from our community optometry colleagues, which I hasten to add are generally of a high standard, and occasionally also from GPs. I thought […]
