Eye Care – “We are now in an eye health emergency”

Eye Care – “We are now in an eye health emergency”

OT  speaks with Marsha de Cordova, MP for Battersea, about equal access to eye healthcare for all locally, and how optometry’s “willing and waiting” workforce should be embraced to address patient backlogs.

Born with nystagmus, a condition that affects her vision, Marsha de Cordova MP is registered blind. She has lived experience of the importance of access to eye healthcare, as well as the challenges that come with being visually impaired.

De Cordova, MP for Battersea since 2017, is focused on working both within her constituency and on a national level in Government to raise awareness of the importance of eye health and the “able and willing” workforce within optometry that, as she has observed, is “willing and waiting” to support secondary care and its patient backlogs.

“What has been striking for me is the desire of so many [optometrists] who want to be part of the joining up of community primary care with secondary care to make a difference and to alleviate the pressure on our hospitals,” she told OT.

Read our report on the AOP roundtable hosted in partnership with Marsha de Cordova MP

“When you have an industry willing and waiting, why would you not grab it with both hands?” she emphasised.

All about data

Data is important to de Cordova, who calls the statistics available on preventable sight loss “shocking.” She highlights that, today, an estimated two million people are living with sight loss in the UK, with this number set to double by 2050. She believes that this data “should worry everyone.”

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