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Publication Date: 05 October 2010
Moorfields Eye Hospital is working alongside a range of charities to celebrate World Sight Day on Thursday 14 October.
A health promotion event will be held at the trust’s main hospital base on London’s City Road from 9.30am to 1pm in the main reception. The focus of the event is to highlight the importance of having regular sight tests to maintain good eye health, with expert advice from Moorfields’ specialist staff.
The event is supported by charities Diabetes UK, the International Glaucoma Association and the Royal National Institute of Blind People, who will all be holding information stands. Everyone is welcome so please come along.
Moorfields is also supporting a special event being organised by national charity Vision on the evening of World Sight Day. Representatives from our specialist children's eye centre and chief executive John Pelly will be joining charitable donors and supporters on the London Eye to launch Vision's new sports legacy initiative, which will create a legacy fund to enable blind and visually impaired children and young adults to access sport throughout the UK.
World Sight Day is an annual event led by VISION 2020, which aims to raise public awareness of blindness and vision impairment as major international public health issues, influence governments to participate in and designate funds for national blindness prevention programmes, and educate target audiences about blindness prevention.
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Notes to editors
- Moorfields is one of the world’s leading eye hospitals, providing expertise in clinical care, research and education. We have provided excellence in eye care for more than 200 years and we continue to be at the forefront of new breakthroughs and developments. We are an integral part of one of the UK’s first academic health science centres, UCL Partners, and recently celebrated five years as one of the country’s first NHS foundation trusts.
- We treat the entire range of eye diseases, from common complaints to rare conditions which require treatments not available anywhere else in the UK. We dealt with around 400,000 patient visits in 2008/09 at our main hospital base in London’s City Road and at 12 other sites in and around the capital, enabling us to provide expert care closer to patients’ homes.
- With our research partners at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, we run one of the largest ophthalmic research programmes in the world and have the highest measure of scientific productivity and impact in the world for our research activity.
- For further information, please visit www.moorfields.nhs.uk.
