APPG 19 March 2008 - Current Challenges within the NHS regarding the long-term treatment of patients with glaucoma
The group met to hear a presentation by Dr Wojiech Karwatowski, Ophthalmogist about Glaucoma Treatment Pathways. Key points from the presentation:
- Early detection is pointless without appropriate treatment.
- Advancing diseases such as glaucoma cause visual disability
- Glaucoma is often unnoticed
- Patients with glaucoma face life changing events
19 March 2008 - Glaucoma
Minutes of Meeting
Glaucoma Treatment Pathway
PowerPoint Presentation - Glaucoma Treatment Pathways
APPG 4 June 2008 - UK Vision Strategy
The group met to hear about the UK Vision Strategy and the five year vision to:
- Improve the eye health of the people of the UK
- Eliminate avoidable sight loss and deliver excellent support to people with a visual impairment
- Enhance the inclusion, participation and independent of blind and partially sighted people
4 June 2008 UK Vision Strategy Minutes of the Meeting
APPG 22 October 2008 - Children's Vision Screening
The group met to hear about Children's Vision Screening and received presentations from:
- Dr David Elliman, Consultant in Community Child Health, Islington PCT and Great Ormond Street Hospital and member of the UK National Screening Committee and
- Dr Jugnoo Rahi, Ophthalmologist and Clinical Lecturer in Epidemiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital
- Professor David Thomson, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, City University.
Minutes of Meeting 22 October 2008