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The urgent need to develop emergency EYE care in the UK: the way forward?

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For two decades prior to 2004, a steady state existed of ~ 14 million general Accident and Emergency (A&E) annual attendances in England. This total has risen each year since,… Click to show full abstract

For two decades prior to 2004, a steady state existed of ~ 14 million general Accident and Emergency (A&E) annual attendances in England. This total has risen each year since, with 22.9 million attendances recorded in 2015/16 (https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wpcontent/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Monthly-AEReport-December-16.pdf). Resultant pressure on A&E has received a great deal of public attention and extra resourcing with medical staff numbers rising 71% from 2002 to 2012.1

Keywords: need develop; emergency; urgent need; emergency eye; eye; develop emergency

Journal Title: Eye
Year Published: 2017

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