Regional health bosses have defended their NHS cataract services following tabloid reports patients were being forced to pay for operations – but cited journeys across the country in search of treatment.
Eye service managers from Plymouth to Rochdale said the suggestion that NHS patients should self-fund cataract surgery to beat long waiting lists was ‘misleading and unnecessary’.
‘I really want people in the Rochdale area and beyond to be aware that they don’t have to pay in order to get their cataract operations quickly thanks to our innovative and much-loved local NHS service,’ said Kenneth Brearton, who manages the Rochdale Ophthalmology Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service (CATS).
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