Poor support towards patient decision-making, says report

A report about patient choice in eye care has identified that the current system of elective care struggled to inform patients of their rights.

Patients were unaware of their choice in healthcare providers and procedures, and were offered little information or support when decision-making, the report highlighted.

The report was published by Ipsos and Policy Partners and commissioned by North Central London’s Single Point of Access service, hosted at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Dilani Siriwardena, deputy medical director and consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, said: ‘Patient choice has been a key principle of the NHS constitution for over a decade, but there has been little work to investigate what it means for our patients and what they really want.’