Action on Cataracts should influence surgical training

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7261.639

BMJ 2000;321:639 ( 9 September )

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Action on Cataracts should influence surgical training

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EDITOR $---$ The management of cataract is one of the spectacular surgical success stories of recent years. Day care is now thenorm, and visual rehabilitation is rapid and dramatic. As a result,the uniformly excellent outcome of this technically highly complexeye operation is now almost taken forgranted.

In 1998-9 some 170 000 cataract operations were performed in the NHS. But Action on Cataracts, launched by the NHS Executiveearlier this year,¹ draws attention to the patchiness of servicesand the long delays experienced by many patients. It presses forthe better organisation of services, and the need for them tobe patient focused. Many of these recommendations are innovativeand exciting, and the NHS Executive anticipates that this initiativewill result in a 47% increase in cataract operations, to 250 000annually, by2003.

Pressure on trusts will increase, especially in those areas that are identified as poor performers.¹ . . . [Full text of this article]

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