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Abba were top of the singles charts and flares were in fashion when Alison Ewbank first went to Moorfields as a pre-reg student. Now 30 years on, she pays a visit to the newly opened Children's Eye Centre and finds that much has changed at the world's most famous eye hospital

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The new Richard Desmond Children's Eye Centre opened its doors to patients in early February and was officially opened by the Queen two weeks later. The six-floor building cost £15.5m, took six years to fund and develop, and houses the largest paediatric ophthalmic clinical, research and training centre in the world.

More than 20,000 children attend Moorfields Eye Hospital each year, with eye conditions from the rare to the routine. Now, all patients under 16 who would previously have been seen at the adjoining City Road site will be seen at the new centre.

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