Clinic Suspended From Carrying Out Eye Ops for Nhs Investigation Starts After Three Patients Are Admitted to Hospital Following Cataract Work

Evening Times › January 31, 2006

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A PRIVATE clinic has been suspended from carrying out eye surgery on NHS patients.

An investigation is under way after several NHS patients sent to the Advanced Centre for Eye Care in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, later developed complications. Three were later admitted to hospital.

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Clinic Suspended From Carrying Out Eye Ops for Nhs Investigation Starts After Three Patients Are Admitted to Hospital Following Cataract Work

The clinic had been chosen by Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow, which decided to use it as part of a drive to reduce waiting times f...

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