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What is your experience of hospital eye care services?
Posted: Thursday 3 October 2019
Patients are being encouraged to share their recent experiences of hospital eye services in order to streamline services and enable more timely treatment.
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We need your votes!
Posted: Tuesday 1 October 2019
We're delighted to announce that we are finalists in the category of Charity of the Year in the AOP Awards 2020, run by the Association of Optometrists (AOP).We entered the awards after recently launching a new five-year strategy and committing to becomi…
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National Eye Health Week - Progress in treatments and research
Posted: Friday 27 September 2019
With eye health in the spotlight during National Eye Health Week, Christiana Dinah, an ophthalmologist at Central Middlesex Hospital has talked about the progress being made in research and treatment for macular disease.
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Visually impaired sprinter announced as new patron
Posted: Thursday 26 September 2019
Para-athlete Zac Shaw has pledged his support to the Macular Society as he has been announced as the organisation’s new patron.Zac is supporting the Society to help raise awareness of macular disease - the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK and highli…
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National Eye Health Week - "The earlier you pick it up, the better chance you’ve got of saving your eyesight."
Posted: Wednesday 25 September 2019
Josephine hadn’t noticed any changes to her vision when she was diagnosed with macular disease, only what she believed to be normal signs of ageing.She hadn’t been for an eye test for a number of years and decided she should go along to her local opticia…
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Our 2019 Awards for Excellence winners announced
Posted: Monday 23 September 2019
Each year, we recognise and reward the amazing work that goes into providing services and care for people with macular disease with our Awards for Excellence, presented at our Annual Conference.Thank you to everyone who made a nomination, and to everyone…
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National Eye Health Week - How to look after your eyes
Posted: Monday 23 September 2019
"We all know how important it is to look after our bodies by exercising regularly and eating healthily, but how many of us really think about how to look after our eyes?
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High profile eye surgeon struck off
Posted: Thursday 19 September 2019
High profile Harley Street ophthalmologist Bobby Qureshi has been struck off for lying to patients about being able to restore their sight after the Macular Society submitted a complaint to the General Medical Council (GMC).Mr Qureshi carried out eye ope…
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Stargardt awareness boosted as football legend Owen reveals son’s diagnosis
Posted: Monday 16 September 2019
The urgent need for clinical research into macular dystrophies has been highlighted after football legend Michael Owen revealed that his teenage son has a rare form of macular disease.The former England striker has brought Stargardt disease sharply into …
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“I felt like the world had stopped and I was all alone and very scared.”
Posted: Monday 16 September 2019
At the age of 13 Faith started noticing that she was struggling to see the board at the front of her classroom.She said it felt as though just overnight things that were once clear and focussed were fuzzy and blurred.She was a backstop in the school roun…
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Eye health research gets a major funding boost for use of data
Posted: Wednesday 11 September 2019
The research collaboration Action Against Age-related Macular Degeneration, set up by the Macular Society and other charities, is now part of a brand new government-funded push to find new cures for eye diseases.AAAMD is a partner on a project that aims …
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One in four of the research projects we fund is made possible because someone remembered us in their Will.
Posted: Wednesday 11 September 2019
This week is Remember a Charity Week, when people across the UK are encouraged to leave a gift in their Will to their favourite charity, after taking care of family and friends.Our legacies manager Julie Edwards says: “It’s a great opportunity to think a…
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