Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Annual Review 2016/17

Our year of achievements

ContentsWelcome from Tessa Green, chairman1Welcome from David Probert, chief executive2Who we are2What we do3Our new vision of excellence3Corporate objectives for 2017/184Our vanguard5Focus on quality5A patient perspective. Living with wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD)6Our performance7Our patients9Our staff10Making new discoveries11Developing tomorrows eye experts12Commercial divisions14Moorfields Private14Moorfields United Arab Emirates (UAE)14Money matters14How we are managed15Our charity partner18

Welcome from Tessa Green, chairman

2016/17 was an exciting year to join Moorfields.

Our research in partnership with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology continued to push boundaries by translating experimental research into sight-saving treatments, attracting worldwide attention. Our CQC inspection recognised many areas of good and outstanding practice, including our extensive research portfolio, our children and young peoples services at City Road and our urgent and emergency services. We received additional recognition as an NHS vanguard, demonstrating how to support networked models of care, and launching a toolkit.

We saw more patients at our 32 NHS UK sites than ever before, and performed well in our NHS quality and financial duties. Our ophthalmic clinical outcomes continue to be evidenced as amongst the best in the world, and our patients and staff consistently rate us highly in surveys.

This was a year in which Moorfields has lived up to its reputation as a world-class organisation committed to innovation. I would like to thank our staff for their outstanding care and commitment, ensuring our patients experience world-class clinical care informed by internationally-rated eye research and education.

Tessa Green, chairman

Welcome from David Probert, chief executive

2016/17 was a very positive and productive year for Moorfields.

I look back on my first year at Moorfields with great pride and respect for colleagues whose expertise, professionalism and commitment have ensured that we remain one of the best performers in the NHS. Our patients continue to report that their confidence in and experience of the care we provide at Moorfields is overwhelmingly positive. The CQC report and overall Good rating provides further assurance of our achievements whilst importantly helping us focus on ways to improve and learn.

I would like to thank all our staff for their dedication and support, for striving to constantly improve, support others, and always aiming to ensure patients receive the best possible experience at Moorfields. The future will bring new challenges and the NHS is facing one of the most significant periods of uncertainty in its long history. This will require us to act flexibly, remain determined and seek new ways of working to ensure we do more, with less. Looking back on the past year, I have every confidence that Moorfields has the foundations on which to build and drive forward our ambitious agenda.

David Probert, chief executive

Who we are

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of eye health services in the UK and a world-class centre of excellence for ophthalmic research and education. Our reputation for providing the highest quality of ophthalmic care has developed over 200 years. Our 2,350 staff are committed to sustaining and building on our pioneering history, and ensuring we remain at the cutting edge of developments in ophthalmology.

We are registered without conditions and with an overall rating of Good with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of health and social care in England.

We were one of the first NHS organisations to become a foundation trust in 2004, and a founder member of UCL Partners one of the UKs first academic health science centres. We are one of only 20 sites nationally that has National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) status, which provides us with the infrastructure to support major innovative research initiatives and enables us to fast-track projects to benefit patients more quickly.

What we do

We provide a wide range of clinical services, caring for patients with routine ophthalmic needs as well as those with rare and complex conditions. Our 32 NHS sites across London and the south east of England allow us to provide expert treatment closer to patients homes.

In partnership with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, we conduct world-leading research. We play a leading role in the training and education of eye care clinicians, working with strategic partners to provide undergraduate training to almost 1,400 medical students each academic year. We manage two commercial divisions: Moorfields Private, and Moorfields United Arab Emirates.

"For the first time this year, we patients had the opportunity to get involved in the development of Moorfields new five-year strategy. Patients helped shape many aspects of the strategy, and in particular Moorfields purpose, and its emphasis on working together. It's really exciting to see a commitment from the trust to involving patients as partners in discovering, developing and delivering the best eye care. Irenie Ekkeshis, patient at Moorfields

Map of Moorfields sites.

Our new vision of excellence

During 2016/17 we engaged our staff, patients and key partners in refreshing our organisational strategy and agreed our core belief peoples sight matters. Together, we developed a cohesive plan setting out our clinical, research and educational aspirations, for the first time in one overarching framework. We launched our new vision of excellence 2017-2022 in July 2017, with a new purpose working together to discover, develop and deliver the best eye care.

Working together means we collaborate with one another as individuals, with our patients and with other organisations.

Discover the best eye care means we will focus on setting the agenda, being at the forefront for others to follow.

Develop the best eye care means we will practically apply our discoveries to benefit our patients, staff and the services we provide.

Deliver the best eye care means we will consistently provide an excellent, globally-recognised service.

Our long-term plan for a new centre of research, education and clinical care in the St Pancras area is gathering pace. Together with our university partner, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and our charity partner Moorfields Eye Charity we will work towards securing the site and completing the business case. We also have ambitions to redevelop our existing facilities on the St Georges hospital site and in the east of London.

Corporate objectives for 2017/18

Our new objectives describe what we need to become and what we need to do to realise our purpose. They are deliberately ambitious because we want to challenge ourselves to deliver the best we can for our patients.

We have eight objectives; four are ambitions that represent the impact we aim to have in the world; and four are enablers that represent what we need to do within Moorfields to achieve our ambitions.

The board will use these objectives to track progress over the next five years. This will make the implementation of our strategy focused and measurable.

Working together to discover, develop and deliver the best eye care

Ambitions

We will pioneer patient-centred care with exceptional clinical outcomes and excellent patient experience

We will be at the leading edge of research, making new discoveries with our partners and patients

We will innovate by sharing our knowledge and developing tomorrows experts

We will collaborate to shape national policy

Enablers

We will attract, retain and develop great people

We will have an infrastructure and culture that supports innovation

We will have a sustainable financial model

We will be enterprising to support and fund our ambitions

Our vanguard

Our participation in the national vanguard programme as one of the acute care collaboration sites has allowed us to share our experience of delivering networked care. In collaboration with partners across the health system, we have developed a networked care toolkit that describes what good looks like for networked care and articulates how it can be implemented successfully across the NHS.

We launched our single specialty networked care toolkit in April 2017 and in the coming year we will promote the toolkit; continue our patient participation work; and consider the implications for regulating and commissioning a networked care model.

Samantha Jones*, NHS England director of new models of care, said Moorfields has shown that through the networked care model, patients have greater access to locally delivered, clinically sustainable services. Hospitals can become more sustainable and care is supported by effective and sustainable governance structures, underpinned by a strong organisational culture.

The learning from Moorfields will help develop future networks across the NHS in a planned way at pace. Sharing this good practice, through the toolkit, will enable others to understand the opportunities and risks of this way of working and how it can support patients and staff.

*Stepped down at NHS England director of new models of care in May 2017.

Focus on quality

We will pioneer patient-centred care with exceptional clinical outcomes and excellent patient experience

During the year we were pleased to receive an overall Good rating from our CQC inspection, which noted areas of outstanding practice. It also highlighted some challenges, in particular improving the full use of the World Health Organisation (WHO) surgical safety checklist.

We are committed to improving our services and encourage all staff to be part of our 50-point improvement action plan. We completed over a third by the end of March 2017, and aim to complete 48 of the 50 improvements by December 2017.

We have set ourselves 11 quality objectives for 2017/18 using Lord Darzis three headings of patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness. We will develop a quality improvement programme to drive quality and service improvement in every corner of the organisation, encouraging ideas and sharing to maximise the wealth of expertise and innovation internally.

We want our patients to have a positive and empowering experience; being treated at the right time, in the right place, by the right professional. We want people to choose Moorfields because they will be confident of receiving the best clinical outcome and an excellent personal experience.

Moorfields aspires to be outstanding in everything it does and we are committed to progressing from a Good organisation to an Outstanding organisation.

A patient perspective. Living with wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD)

Elaine lives in London, and has been a patient at Moorfields since 2013. Here she tells her story of living with wet AMD.

In 2000 my left eye felt really irritated and cloudy. Id spoken with a pharmacist, and used eye drops, but nothing helped. I was really worried. My GP sent me to Kings College Hospital. The consultant there told me this is very serious and went on to explain that I had a central bleed in the macular. I asked him will I go blind? but he couldnt give me any reassurances, just that my only option was to have the central bleed lasered.

I hoped that my eye was going to be fine as I wasnt given any other information. After I had the laser done I was totally and utterly devastated when I realised it had completely knocked out my central vision. When I covered my right eye I couldnt see peoples faces, the television or any detail whatsoever.

For the next 12 years I went for regular eye tests, unaware that this cruel disease would begin to affect my right eye too. In 2013 my right eye started to see straight lines as wavy and my GP sent me to Moorfields A&E. I waited several weeks for diagnosis and treatment of my good eye, having already lost the vision in my left eye. It was bad news. My right macular had a bleed. I was in total shock. I began to have eye injections, I was so grateful that something could be done to help.

The team at Moorfields make you feel like a person and not a number. When my consultant Pearse asked me about my left eye, I felt so choked up and emotional that someone cared enough to ask me, and I realised how overwhelmingly raw it was after all these years. I had four injections at the time, the bleeds stopped and I was told to return to A&E immediately if I saw any more changes.

The following year I was worried that I had another bleed and rushed straight back to Moorfields. Following a scan the doctors told me I needed more injections, they showed empathy and understanding. I was feeling distressed, which they picked up on and I felt a hand on my hand which was absolutely great.

Im still attending Moorfields and I need brighter lights now. I struggle when I go into dimly lit restaurants and venues. I like to go to the theatre but worry that I might trip over people. My spatial awareness has diminished and if Im pruning something I have to make sure I dont cut my fingers off.

Moorfields is the centre of excellence and continues to care for me and support me. They are just awesome and reassuring! I would be totally lost without Pearse and all the wonderful staff there. They hold me up in safe arms just as the instructor did when I did my tandem skydive for Moorfields charity last November. The whole experience was very symbolic for me.

Now the future really is illuminated with hope. Its no longer deep despair stumbling along a lonely pathway of fear filled with darkness and shadows. I feel hopeful.

Our performance

This year we:

treated record numbers of patients across our 32-site NHS network

achieved all national waiting time targets, improving year on year performance in most

continued to provide high quality care and treatment evidenced by positive feedback from our patients

Patient activity

Place of care

A&E

2015/16 103,926

2016/17 102, 564

Day case (patients with planned treatment who need a bed in the day, but dont need an overnight stay)

2015/16 35,335

2016/17 35,999

Inpatient planned (patients with planned treatment who need an overnight stay)

2015/16 1,073

2016/17 1,114

Inpatient unplanned (patients who need emergency treatment and an overnight stay)

2015/16 2,413

2016/17 2,757

Outpatients (patients with a planned appointment who dont need an overnight stay)

2015/16 561,495

2016/17 586,917

Grand total

2015/16 704,242

2016/17 729,351

Patient safety performance 2016/17

0 reportable Clostridium difficile cases

0 reportable MRSA bacteraemia cases

Improved venous thromboembolism (VTE) screening levels (screening for blood clots in the vein)

Performance 2016/17 98.9%

Waiting timesPerformance 2016/17

4 hour maximum wait in A&E from arrival admission, transfer or discharge:

98.1%

Cancer 2 week waits from urgent GP referral to first appointment:

98.5%

% of patients waiting less than 6 weeks for a diagnostic test:

100%

% of patients waiting less than 18 weeks for their treatment to begin:

97.8%

Our patients

Many patients tell us what they think in the friends and family test. 111,995 people took part in 2016/17 across 53 clinics. 96.4% of our patients would recommend Moorfields to their friends and family. Many comment on the friendliness, helpfulness, excellence, clinical outcomes, professionalism and organisation at Moorfields.

Around 200 patients a month name specific members of staff as giving exceptional care. The number of staff mentions has increased by 100% following the introduction of The Moorfields Way commitments.

We know that patients are disappointed with long waiting times in clinic and our patient experience committee is looking at ways to improve this.

Providing the best patient experience is at the heart of everything we do. In 2016/17 we:

introduced patient pagers so patients can leave a clinic area without missing their appointment, and to help people who are deaf or have hearing loss

colour coded the waiting area seating

trialled patient check-in kiosks to improve patient check-in waits

worked with patients to identify our 2017/18 quality priorities

established a patient engagement group to improve patient communication

worked with patients and partner organisations such as RNIB to improve communication and wayfinding.

PALS and complaints

In the year our patient advice and liaison service (PALS) dealt with nearly 3,000 enquiries, covering a range of issues. We received around 200 complaints which the complaints team helped to resolve. Where we recognise an issue, we take action so it does not happen again.

Compliments

We love to hear compliments; here are some from 2016/17.

Moorfields is an amazing hospital and we are very lucky to have this facility We have nothing but praise for the children's A&E department, from the moment we arrived, the care and the staff were amazing, the nurses, the doctors doing the tests, the consultant and even the porter were all helpful and understanding Thank you (NHS Choices)

Great treatment and care from everyone I saw at @Moorfields today. Thank you! #nhs (Twitter)

It was a pleasant, stress free and in fact an enjoyable morning! The nurses were kind, efficient and clear in their explanations. The operation was painless and effective - I can now see so much more clearly its like magic!...I can't recommend it highly enough and can't think of anything that could have been done better (FFT comment)

Our staff

We will attract, retain and develop great people

March 2017 saw the eighth Moorfields Stars event, our annual award ceremony to recognise and reward staff for their professional and academic achievements in the last year, supported by our charity partner, Moorfields Eye Charity. This years celebration was our biggest yet with nearly 300 staff and guests attending.

We expanded our award categories and received a record number of nominations this year, including almost 200 nominations from patients for the new patient choice award. Our charity partner introduced the charity champion award, which celebrates staff activity that benefits its fundraising programme.

2016 Moorfields Stars awards winners

Chairmans award for an outstanding contribution to Moorfields

Carole Thomas, orthoptist

Chief executives star of the year

Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi, head of clinical research nursing

Moorfields team of the year

Northwick Park theatre team

Moorfields Eye Charitys award for innovation, research or education

#knowyourdrops campaign team, pharmacy and communications teams

The charity champion award

Professor Jim Bainbridge, consultant ophthalmologist

The patient choice award

Peter Coggin, senior ocular prosthetist

Notable achievements

Each year many of our colleagues are acknowledged externally for their achievements and contributions. Of particular note this year are:

Alison Davis, consultant ophthalmologist on her appointment by NHS England to chair the specialised ear, nose and throat (ENT) and ophthalmology clinical reference group (CRG).

Melanie Hingorani, consultant paediatric ophthalmologist, on her prestigious appointment to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists to chair the professional standards committee. The role also carries the title of senior vice president of the college and Melanie will take a seat on the college council.

Vincenzo Maurino, on his award of the Order of the Star of Italy by the Italian Ambassador. The award is one of Italys highest honours, recognising Italian citizens who have distinguished themselves abroad.

The Moorfields Way

We are into year three of our major programme of cultural change, to make Moorfields caring, organised, excellent and inclusive. This programme was in direct response to patients telling us they wanted to be kept waiting less, needed better communication and wanted staff to work better as a team. Staff asked for better communication, protection from bullying and equal opportunities.

We track our progress in The Moorfields Way, asking staff about it in our staff friends and family test (FFT). This year, over 96% of participating staff told us that they had heard of The Moorfields Way, and almost half said that it was making a difference in their part of the trust.

Making new discoveries

We will be at the leading edge of research, making new discoveries with our partners and patients

Our research in partnership with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology continues to push boundaries by translating experimental research into sight-saving treatments.

Moorfields celebrated many exciting and innovative research developments in the year and we were successful in gaining accreditation for five further years as a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and Clinical Research Facility (CRF).

Our BRC for ophthalmology was awarded 19 million over five years in recognition of the world-leading excellence of our partnership with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

Our CRF was awarded 5.3 million over five years in recognition of our world-leading excellence in the translation of ground-breaking experimental medical research into sight saving treatments.

This is recognition of the world class research we deliver at Moorfields in partnership with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. This substantial investment in eye research will enable us to continue to rapidly develop and deliver life-changing treatments for our patients. With sight loss predicted to double by the year 2050, this vital funding for eye research has never been more important.

Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw

Director of research and development

In 2016, we launched a new medical research partnership with DeepMind Health, one of the worlds leading artificial intelligence companies, which could revolutionise the way professionals carry out eye tests and lead to earlier detection of common eye diseases. Our collaboration with DeepMind is investigating how artificial intelligence technology could help to rapidly analyse eye scans, giving clinicians a better understanding of eye disease. The project involves Moorfields and DeepMind analysing a set of one million anonymised eye scans.

Elaine, a patient at Moorfields said I feel that this highly innovative and exciting research is crucial in enabling prompt detection and treatment for devastating and debilitating eye conditions.

In 2016 NHS England pledged funding for further testing of the Argus II, also known as the Bionic Eye. Five patients will undergo surgery at Moorfields to tackle Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), an inherited disease that causes blindness. NHS England will assess how the Bionic Eye helps patients function with everyday tasks.

For patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa who have profound vision loss, the long-term benefits of this technology in restoring some useful vision can be life-changing. Our work at Moorfields has shown that the Argus II can increase patients functional vision for many years after implantation which represents significant progress in the evolution of artificial sight.

Professor Lyndon da Cruz

Consultant retinal surgeon

Developing tomorrows eye experts

We will innovate by sharing our knowledge and developing tomorrows experts

We are the largest provider of NHS-funded ophthalmology education and training, and supply education and training externally. We work closely with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and aim to recruit a joint director of education.

In 2016/17 there have been significant developments in education, teaching and training.

Medical education

In 2016, our undergraduate education team received a team award in undergraduate teaching, as well as the Saad al-Damluji Excellence in Clinical Teaching award.

Our students performed well in the prestigious national Duke Elder undergraduate prize examination taking eight of the top 20 places, including the top place. 483 students competed for the prize in 2016.

Nurse education

The CQC commended nurse education praising the development of staff skills, competence and knowledge, and development of extended nursing and allied health professional roles. Staff reported that they felt well supported and received good training opportunities.

The Moorfields and UCL postgraduate certificate in clinical ophthalmic practice is now in its second year; the second full time cohort achieved a 100% pass rate.

We attained City & Guilds accreditation for the ophthalmic care certificate. This offers a formal qualification to healthcare assistants and technicians in ophthalmic practice.

Optometry education

We formalised a comprehensive training package for our sought-after resident programme, introducing new courses. We offer courses to optometrists worldwide which attract revenue, receive excellent feedback and help to train our staff.

Pharmacy

We developed the #knowyourdrops patient education campaign which has received positive feedback from patients with all event attendees saying they felt more confident about putting in their eye drops. We are now offering this as a training package for other organisations.

Leadership and management development

We successfully bid to be one of the first specialist trusts piloting the new Mary Seacole programme, developed by the National Leadership Academy.

We launched a comprehensive development programme to support our newly established clinical divisions transition to semi-autonomous business units.

Apprenticeships and graduate trainees

We appointed a dedicated apprentice manager to increase apprenticeships, and develop a management apprenticeship programme.

Graduate trainees from the NHS and Civil Service graduate schemes continue to give us good feedback, and provide real benefit. One recent graduate built up our e-commerce ability in a learning management system, allowing us to sell training programmes externally. We achieved 100,000 in revenue from selling courses, with the profit channelled into the NHS to benefit our patients.

Commercial divisions

We will be enterprising to support and fund our ambitions

Moorfields Private

During the year we completed a major capital refurbishment project funded from commercial profits. The new Moorfields Private outpatient centre in Bath Street provides an improved patient experience and reflects the trusts reputation as a world leader in ophthalmology.

Moorfields United Arab Emirates (UAE)

2016/17 was a successful year for Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai, which was awarded International Eye Clinic of the Year by two different international medical congresses - the International Medical Tourism Journal Summit and the 11th World Health Tourism Congress.

2016 saw both the official opening of Moorfields Eye Hospital Centre in Abu Dhabi, and the launch of Moorfields paediatric ophthalmology services at the Al Jalila Childrens Specialty Hospital in Dubai. The hospital was inaugurated by HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. HRH the Duchess of Cornwall, and Chairperson of Dubai Healthcare City Authority HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein toured the new service in November 2016.

Money matters

We will have a sustainable financial model

In 2016/17 our income continued to grow. Most of our income comes from NHS activities (services) which commissioners pay us to provide. Our NHS activity increased this year.

We receive additional income from research and development and education and training activities, and from our commercial divisions Moorfields Private, Moorfields United Arab Emirates as well as Moorfields Pharmaceuticals which we sold in 2016. Surplus from this non-NHS activity is reinvested to benefit all our patients.

In 2016/17 our underlying financial surplus was 12.8 million surplus (2015/16 2.0 million).

All figures in million

2016/17

2015/16

Income

Income from activities

NHS income

163.9

152.3

Private patient income

26.8

23.0

Total income from activities

190.7

175.3

NHS Improvement Sustainability and Transformation Fund

6.7*

Other operating income

24.6

26.6

Total other operating income

31.3

26.6

Total income

222.0

201.9

Expenses

Pay costs

113.0

108.9

Non-pay costs

85.2

80.3

Depreciation and amortisation

8.1

8.5

Total operating expenses

206.3

197.7

Operating surplus excluding impairments

15.7

4.2

Interest and dividends

(2.0)

(2.2)

Other one-off costs related to joint ventures and disposal of assets

(0.9)

Surplus for the year

12.8**

2.0

*5.6 million of this was allocated to Moorfields from NHS Improvement in recognition of our in-year financial performance.

**Excludes 0.4 million from Sustainability and Transformation Fund allocated after accounts deadline. To be reflected in the 2016/17 financial results when submitting 2017/18 accounts.

How we are managed

Moorfields is led by the board of directors, made up of executive and non-executive directors, and also has a board of governors, known as the membership council.

Our board of directors 2016/17

Job title

Name

Chairman

Tessa Green CBE

Chief executive

David Probert

Julian Nettel interim chief executive

Non-executive directors

Professor Andrew Dick

Rosalind Given-Wilson

Nick Hardie

Deborah Harris-Ugbomah*

Professor Phil Luthert*

Andrew Nebel*

Sumita Singha

Stephen Williams

Executive directors

Medical director

Mr Declan Flanagan

Director of research and development

Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw

Director of nursing and allied health professions

Tracy Luckett

Chief financial officer

Steven Davies

Chief operating officer

John Quinn

*As of 1 April 2017 no longer serving.

Our associate directors attend board meetings but do not have voting rights:

Job title

Name

Director of strategy and business development

Johanna Moss

Chief information officer

Elisa Steele

Director of human resources

Sally Storey

Director of corporate governance

Ian Tombleson*

Commercial director

Mariano Gonzalez

*Director of quality and safety from 1 April 2017.

Membership council 2016/17

Constituency

Elected governors*

Public: Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire (Two governors)

Jane Colebourn

Harry Davies from 25 November 2016

Public: north east London and Essex (Two governors)

Istvan F Selmeczi until November 2016

Simon Tan

Public: north central London(Two governors)

Jane Bush

Paul Murphy

Public: north west London(Two governors)

Simon Mansfield

Brian Watkins

Public: south east London(Two governors)

Allan MacCarthy

Suryanarayanan Naga Subramanian

Public: south west London(Two governors)

Emily Brothers

Bernard Dolan

Patient(Three governors)

Brenda Faulkner

Robert Jones

Jill Wakefield

Staff: City Road class(Two governors)

Alexandra Edwards

Stacey Strong

Staff: satellite class(Two governors)

Colin Carter

Feyitimilehin Onafowokan

*Full details including vacancies available at www.moorfields.nhs.uk

Represented organisation

Nominated governors

London Borough of Islington

Vacant

Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)

Fazilet Hadi

International Glaucoma Association

Helen Doe

University College London

Professor Peter Mobbs

City University

John Lawrenson

Become a member

Membership is a chance to support and get involved in our work. You can do as much or as little as you feel able, but all members have the opportunity to have a say in how we develop and to help shape our future and your experience and knowledge means that we can be more responsive to members needs.

Membership packs are available from our membership office, which you can contact on 020 7566 2490 or by email to foundation@moorfields.nhs.uk.

Our charity partner

Charitable giving has a huge impact, helping to fund important research projects and improve our services and facilities so that Moorfields is at the forefront of ophthalmic treatment, research and education. Our charity partner, Moorfields Eye Charity, provides the main focus for fundraising and charitable grant-making at the hospital. It works alongside the Friends of Moorfields, an active and dedicated body of voluntary fundraisers.

Moorfields Eye Charity projects 2016/17

Research:

Investigating the development of tumours across the eye to inform potential treatments for patients with ocular cancer.

Supporting two PhD studentships specifically focused on age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Enabling a pioneering stem cell trial aimed at restoring sight for people with age related macular degeneration (AMD). This new procedure developed by the London Project to Cure Blindness, offers hope that we may be close to identifying a treatment using stem cells to replace existing cells in the eye that are damaged or missing, and eradicate this debilitating condition.

Development of a hand held binocular, which will provide extremely high-resolution images of the eye in a completely non-invasive manner. This imaging provides much greater resolution than CT or MRI scanning, and can be obtained in only a fraction of a second.

Equipment:

a tonometer for the Richard Desmond Childrens Eye Centre which measures intraocular pressure in children with glaucoma and enhances existing resources in paediatric clinical and research work

imaging and robotic surgical equipment necessary to support a clinical trial which will enable the precision delivery of a stem cell derived treatment for retinal degeneration.

Patient and service delivery:

A pilot project to evaluate a sustainable model of eye care at Moorfields North.

Funding to a collaborative team developing a smartphone app which will apply filters on images to reflect the vision of a person with a common eye disease. In addition the project will develop a video facility using a smartphone and an inexpensive 3D viewer to visualise a patients optical profile.

Eye to Eye

Over 700 patients, staff members and supporters took part in Eye to Eye, Moorfields Eye Charitys flagship fundraising event which took place on Sunday 12 March 2017. Thank you to all participants, who raised over 105,000 to fund pioneering research at the trust by walking four or 14 miles from Moorfields City Road to the London Eye. Next years event takes place on Sunday 4 March 2018, registration will open in September 2017. Email: eye2eye@moorfields.nhs.uk or call 020 7566 2486 for more information.

Thank you

Moorfields Eye Charity receives millions of pounds every year thanks to the enthusiasm and kindness of our growing numbers of supporters, many of them appreciative patients, members and staff. Thank you to everyone who contributed during the last year.

How you can help

More support means more research and cutting edge facilities which have the potential to provide breakthroughs that can transform more lives and shape the future of eye care.

For further information on how you can help and get involved, please:

Pop into the Moorfields Eye Charity office on the ground floor of the City Road hospital

Call us on 020 7566 2565

Email us at eyecharity@moorfields.nhs.uk

Visit our website at moorfieldseyecharity.org.uk

Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/moorfieldseyecharitylondon/

follow us on twitter @eyecharity

This annual review summarises Moorfields work during 2016/17. This is covered in detail in our annual report and accounts, available on our website www.moorfields.nhs.uk.

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