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Around 2,000 extra patients with an eye illness are to have their appointments transferred to a private company and paid for by the NHS.
The move is to bypass long hold-ups at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS).
The patients with glaucoma will be sent to Cobridge Primary Care Centre and St Jude's Hospital in Basford where they will be treated by consultants from the Birmingham-based Midland Eye Institute.
Patients have been referred to the company since January after UHNS was so overwhelmed with work it had to close to new cases.
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.u...private-care/story-18922734-detail/story.html
The move is to bypass long hold-ups at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS).
The patients with glaucoma will be sent to Cobridge Primary Care Centre and St Jude's Hospital in Basford where they will be treated by consultants from the Birmingham-based Midland Eye Institute.
Patients have been referred to the company since January after UHNS was so overwhelmed with work it had to close to new cases.
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.u...private-care/story-18922734-detail/story.html