U.K. report identifies gaps in patient care, research

LONDON — The largest charity organization dedicated to fighting vision loss in the United Kingdom recently released the results of a wide-ranging survey of questions about vision loss and eye disease from eye care professionals, patients and their relatives and care givers, in an effort to identify and prioritize gaps in research, according to a speaker here. During the Ophthalmology Futures Forum here, Michele Acton, chief executive of Fight for Sight, discussed some of the findings from the Sight Loss and Vision Priority Setting Partnership: Setting Priorities for Eye Research Report to an audience of ophthalmologists, venture capitalists and corporate executives in the eye care industry.