Moorfields downplays reports of cuts to services

Moorfields Eye Hospital has downplayed reports of possible cuts to services because of a deficit of around £900,000 in the current financial year.

National media reports published earlier this week suggested that the foundation trust's regulator, Monitor, had issued a financial warning in December and invited Moorfields to call in the consultants KPMG to help devise a recovery plan.

However, a Moorfields spokesman told Optician that it was 'business as usual' and he insisted that there were no cut-backs in the pipeline resulting from the financial shortfall.

'We will be back on track by March 31, the end of the current financial and by which time the £900,000 outstanding will be accounted for,' he commented.