The purpose of OPTIC is to:
OPTIC has made significant progress since its formation including:
Ophthalmology - Blackpool Victoria Hospital
The ophthalmology department at Blackpool Victoria Hospital provides the following services:
Lancashire Teaching Hospital | Lancashire Eye Centre (lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk)
The Lancashire Eye Centre Facilities
The ophthalmology department at Lancashire Teaching hospitals is a dynamic, progressive service which is based across two sites: Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley District Hospital. Our primary location is the newly opened Lancashire Eye Centre situated in Chorley District Hospital. The Centre was funded through an £18m investment and comprises a three-storey build with modern, state of the art outpatient and day-case facilities on one site. There are over 20 consult rooms in outpatients and three modern spacious theatres purpose built for an optimal patient experience. The unit is equipped with newly purchased modern diagnostic facilities to provide subspecialist and high-quality care in a number of areas including:
​​​​Our Staff
The service prides itself on the high standards our varied and experienced clinical team provides.
We have 12 highly trained consultant ophthalmologists within our service who have subspecialist expertise and are supported by eight medical grade doctors and three training ophthalmologists from North West Deanery and Edge Hill University.
We have supported the development of many allied health professionals. We currently employ over 20 orthoptists and 8 optometrists, we have over 20 ophthalmic technicians, who work alongside medical staff to run our glaucoma and retinal clinics as well as supporting paediatrics/strabismus and neuroophthalmology.
The department runs daily Virtual clinics in glaucoma/retina and neuroophthalmology.
We also have two trained nurse injectors as well as nurse practitioners in emergency clinics, cataract clinics and lasers.
We have been shortlisted for two HSJ patient safety awards last year and came first in the Trust satisfaction survey for “a great place to work”.
We are a forward-thinking department and encourage active participation in audit, research and education with departmental involvement in several research trials linked through the Trust clinical research facility.
University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Trust provides Ophthalmology appointments and treatment at all three of their hospital sites in Kendal, Lancaster, and Barrow.
UHMBT provides a range of services for all local residents and people from further afield who choose to be treated there. All consultants are experts in their fields of ophthalmology and undertake all types of eye surgery.
The one-stop cataract clinic has a wait of seven weeks, and includes assessment, biometry, listing, blood pressure, and blood sugar tests. Patients wait approximately 16 weeks from their first appointment for surgery.
The main focus is the treatment and care of NHS patients with a wide range of eye problems, from common eye complaints to more specialised eye complaints which need expert care.
Our consultant team is:
We are working with East Lancashire Hospitals Trust to determine their waiting time data for cataract procedures, and hope to include them as soon as possible.