Jan
22
Dear patients and professional colleagues, We trust that you are all keeping well. As we find ourselves in yet another lockdown, we wanted to remind everyone that medical appointments are exempt from the restrictions. We will continue to care for our patients as normal in our safe clinic environment with strict hygiene and social distancing… Continue reading »
Dec
21
Dear patients and professional colleagues, We trust that you are all keeping well. As London and much of the South East heads into Tier 4 restrictions, we thought we should re-emphasise that medical appointments are exempt from the restrictions. We will continue to care for our patients as normal in our safe clinic environment with… Continue reading »
Nov
02
Dear patients and professional colleagues, We hope that you are all keeping well. Sadly another lockdown is needed, but the Government has been very clear that medical appointments are exempt from the restrictions. Some of the conditions we see are very treatable conditions if identified and managed, but can be sight-threatening if not. We will continue… Continue reading »
Jun
19
Dear all, We hope you and yours are all well. Things seem to be gradually going back to some sort of normal [fingers massively crossed]… We have been running small clinics for the last 4 weeks and they’ve been going well. We started off with 1 patient an hour, but found that such a large… Continue reading »
May
29
Dear patients and professional colleagues, I hope that you are all keeping well. The purpose of this message is to highlight some changes to the clinic visit that we have made in the light of the coronavirus pandemic. This is primarily for the safety of our patients and staff. Just as your visit to a… Continue reading »
Mar
23
As a result of the global Coronavirus pandemic, and in line with NHS and worldwide best practice in affected areas, we have decided to partially close the practice from today until after Easter. All patients who were due to come in have been informed – Mark is reviewing their notes and we are contacting them… Continue reading »
Mar
15
Many of our patients are concerned about the coronavirus. Obviously for the moment the number of confirmed cases in the UK is relatively low. We all hope that it will stay that way, but realistically it is likely to get worse before it gets better. So what do we recommend to our patients? Firstly, please… Continue reading »
Mar
03
Many of our patients are concerned about the coronavirus. Obviously for the moment the number of confirmed cases in the UK is low. We all hope that it will stay that way, but realistically it may well get worse before it gets better. So what do we recommend to our patients? Firstly, please follow the… Continue reading »
Jan
13
New year and time to look at our private practice stats again. These are only for the private practice and don’t include Mark’s NHS work at Moorfields Eye Hospital and The Royal London Hospital – otherwise the totals for surgery and consultations would be much higher! Number of consultations (new patient and follow up): 2100… Continue reading »
Mar
04
We’ve been crunching some of our private practice numbers and thought we’d share them with you, to give an idea of our practice size and specialties. Obviously bear in mind that Mark carries out many of these procedures and operations in his NHS practice, too, so his actual total is much higher! Number of consultations… Continue reading »
