Announced by the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust is the Theatre Team from the new Northern Ireland Elective Cataract Care Centre at the Downe Hospital.
In October 2018, the Department of Health announced that the Downe Hospital had been chosen as a new elective centre to deliver a day surgery cataract prototype service, serving patients across Northern Ireland.
The Downe Hospital is one of three hospitals selected along with the Mid Ulster and South Tyrone hospitals, and will expand the cataract surgical service, to a daily service to facilitate Cataract Surgery from all over Northern Ireland.
This prototype work forms part of the Department of Health’s modernisation plan to transform the delivery of elective care services and reduce waiting times for such types of ‘day procedures’.
