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Moorfields eyes new site

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Moorfields Eye Hospital has revealed proposals to move its main central London hospital from City Road near Old Street to more modern facilities in the King’s Cross/Euston area.

A statement outlining the plan said the existing buildings at City Road were more than 100 years old and built ‘at a time when hospital care was provided very differently to how it is now'. The buildings were deemed ‘no longer suited to the provision of 21st-century clinical care, research or education’. Moorfields also said the configuration of existing buildings offered little scope for true integration between clinical, research and teaching elements of its work.

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