He founded the Cambridge Ophthalmology Symposium and served on many professional bodies. His textbook “Sclera and Systemic Diseases” went through multiple editions. His research interests included glaucoma and scleritis. He was also head of the Scleritis Clinic at Moorfields. He was a staff member at Addenbrookes Hospital, including being head of their Eye Department. Professor Peter Watson had an illustrious career. It was a great honour to be invited to give the inaugural Peter Watson Memorial Lecture. An important step is the training and development of coordinated eye care teams that are resourced to meet their population-based needs and to monitor the progress being made. To provide the equity in eye care that is required, attention needs to be paid to integrating eye care into primary care and linking it with other specialist services. This is due to both population growth and the aging of the population. These data show that although the prevalence rates of vision loss and blindness are decreasing around the world, the actual number of people affected is slowly increasing. Data on eye health and vision loss have been collected from multiple population-based studies and analysed by the Vision Loss Expert Group. Indicators have been developed to track progress and national governments are to report on their progress. In 2019 the World Health Organisation produced the World Report on Vision that sets a clear pathway to develop Integrated Person-centred Eye Care. Over the last 30 years a lot of progress has been made in developing and implementing eye care programmes to address this and particularly to reach underserved populations. This led to the global initiative, Vision 2020. In the 1990s attention was drawn to the huge global problem of blindness and vision loss most of which was unnecessary, being preventable or treatable.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |