Moorfields Eye Hospital has created a new diagnostic clinic in Hoxton, London to ease pressure on its hospital site while also promoting safe social distancing through faster, more efficient appointments.
Patients at the new clinic are called in for a series of rapid diagnostic tests that are completed one after the other during a 45-minute visit, explained Dilani Siriwardena, deputy medical director at Moorfields.
‘We had noticed even before the pandemic that it was more efficient for patients to have a series of rapid tests within a short visit instead of waiting around to see a consultant on the same day that diagnostic eye tests take place.’
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