The urgent need to develop emergency EYE care in the UK: the way forward?

J. C. Buchan; B. Barnes; A. Cassels-Brown; B. Y. Chang; J. Harcourt; R. F. Pilling; D. Shickle; A. F. Spencer; S. A. Vernon; C. MacEwen

doi:10.1038/eye.2017.113

The urgent need to develop emergency EYE care in the UK: the way forward?

J. C. Buchan (Lead / Corresponding author)
, B. Barnes
, A. Cassels-Brown
, B. Y. Chang
, J. Harcourt
, R. F. Pilling
, D. Shickle
, A. F. Spencer
, S. A. Vernon
, C. MacEwen

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Abstract

For two decades prior to 2004, a steady state existed of ~14 million general Accident and Emergency (A&E) annual attendances in England. This total has risen each year since, with 22.9 million attendances recorded in 2015/16 (https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Monthly-AE-Report-December-16.pdf). Resultant pressure on A&E has received a great deal of public attention and extra resourcing with medical staff numbers rising 71% from 2002 to 2012.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1515-1518
Number of pages	4
Journal	Eye
Volume	31
Early online date	16 Jun 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.2017.113
Publication status	Published - 16 Jun 2017

Keywords

emergency eye care
ophthalmology
accident and emergency

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