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Eye surgeon Hector Chawla, former Eye Pavilion director, explains why Edinburgh needs a new eye hospital

Eye surgeon Hector Chawla, former Eye Pavilion director, explains why Edinburgh needs a new eye hospital
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Gordon Brown backs calls for new Edinburgh eye hospital to go ahead at Little France

Submitting. And he called on the Scottish Government to “end the ambiguity” over its plans and commit to a new hospital at Little France. Gordon Brown with Dr Hector Chawla Picture: Alex Hewitt His intervention, just days before the Holyrood elections, comes as Dr Hector Chawla, the consultant responsible for the sight-saving surgery in 1971, sets out in today’s Scotsman why the proposal to disperse services, put forward by the government as an alternative to a new hospital, would not work. The government told NHS Lothian in December it would not fund a new hospital “now or in the foreseeable future” despite agreeing in principle to the project in 2018 and allowing more than £1 million to be spent on planning the new building. Instead, it said NHS Lothian should review eyecare services, suggesting community optometrists could take a bigger role and operations could be carried out at a new elective centre in Livingston yet to be built.

Nicola Sturgeon says she will renew Edinburgh s Eye Pavilion but opposition politicians say there must be a new hospital

Nicola Sturgeon says she will renew Edinburgh s Eye Pavilion but opposition politicians say there must be a new hospital Ian Swanson © The Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion on Chalmers Street has been declared not fit for purpose Pic . But there were no further details and opposition politicians said they feared she meant refurbishing the existing “clapped out” building rather than restoring support for the planned new state-of-the-art eye hospital at Little France which ministers said in December they would no longer fund. In a speech on the NHS, Ms Sturgeon announced plans for two new elective centres in Ayrshire and Cumbernauld.

Edinburgh s Eye Pavilion: centralisation fears as thousands already sent west for treatment

Edinburgh s Eye Pavilion: centralisation fears as thousands already sent west for treatment © The Scottish Government has said it will not fund a replacement for the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavi. Lothian Tory MSP Miles Briggs said he feared the loss of a specialist eye hospital would lead to greater centralisation of eyecare provision in Glasgow. The Scottish Government provoked a public outcry in December when it said it would not fund a replacement for the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion – despite backing the project in 2018 – and told NHS Lothian to review its eye services. Figures released under Freedom of Information show an average of almost 2,000 patients a year were being referred from Lothian to the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank for ophthalmology treatments until last year when the pandemic saw numbers fall to 635.

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