Cash injection for AMD clinic

An eye clinic has been bolstered with £320,000 investment that will allow 70 per cent more patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to be treated.

Seacroft Hospital in Leeds has secured the funding from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

A new and expanded wet AMD service at the hospital includes five clean rooms, a dedicated waiting area and new signage. It has been co-located with refurbished ophthalmology outpatient facilities, including a laser suite and a number of clinic rooms.

The community's original wet AMD service based at St James's University Hospital has seen demand continue to rise.

Martin McKibbin, consultant ophthalmologist at Seacroft Hospital, said: 'The new service builds on the good work that has already taken place at St James's University Hospital over the past five years.'