“
The way in which cataracts surgery happens now
is very clever. Through the use of tiny incisions, you
remove the old lens, and insert an artificial one which
unfolds in the eye in a natural position. It’s a very
quick operation and the most cost effective surgical
intervention in medicine, full stop!
“
We’re also heavily involved in gene therapy and
here at Moorfields, we did the world’s first ocular
Moorfields Eye Hospital
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Improvin
Professor James Bainbridge
examining one of his
patients on the slit lamp
