The Excellence in Ophthalmology conference should be on all eye care practitioners' radar, says Bill Harvey
Commissioning groups
First speaker and programme director for the UK Vision Strategy Anita Lightstone painted a picture of limited resource being simply unable to cope with the current and predicted rates for eye disease in the UK. She outlined the Vision 2020 strategies established in each of the UK countries aimed at removing preventable sight loss by the year 2020. Challenges to this aim were the deeply concerning influences of obesity and smoking and a recognised poor integration between primary and secondary care in the eye care sector.
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