VANGUARD - MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST: Nationally there are over 700,000 ophthalmology hospital episodes and over 7 million ophthalmology outpatient appointments each year across England.

Data-sharing agreement from NHS Digital registers of approved data releases, 2014–2019. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation: VANGUARD - MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Source reference: DARS-NIC-15281-W8L6H-v0.6
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-15281-W8L6H-v0.6
Agreement period: not published to no end date published
For commercial purposes (as marked in the register): Not stated
Release files listed by NHS England: 10

Data approved

Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatients
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care

Objective, as published

Nationally there are over 700,000 ophthalmology hospital episodes and over 7 million ophthalmology outpatient appointments each year across England. Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Moorfields) is at the leading edge of treatments in ophthalmology and provides care for patients with eye conditions across London and SE England, and provides specialist services for patients from across the UK. To inform the Trust’s knowledge, on an ongoing basis, of the patterns of ophthalmic care, patient flows and activity, to direct strategic planning and to ensure capacity meets demand, the Trust wishes to understand at a detailed level information about patient flows for ophthalmology services at a local, regional and national level. Moorfields is the largest ophthalmic provider in England and provides more than one-third of all ophthalmic outpatient and hospital care in London (22 sites across London). The analysis will enable the Trust to understand patient flows to and between these sites, and to other sites in London, to inform future planning. Moorfields also provides specialist care for patients from across England and the analysis will inform the Trust’s planning for these services. Within NHS England's New Care Models Programme (www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/new-care-models) there are 13 acute care collaboration vanguards which will link together local hospitals to improve their clinical and financial viability. This programme which has been set up to focus on…

Expected benefits, as published

This analysis will enable the senior clinicians and managers at Moorfields to target its clinical expertise to further improve ophthalmic care in London, across the South East and across England as a whole. Moorfields will use the analysis to: - improve ophthalmology care by ensuring that the right capacity and expertise is in the right places to meet current and future demand. - Identify gaps in service provision where patients don’t have sufficient access to specialist ophthalmic care, and to plan to meet those gaps - Identify the locations where specialists from Moorfields should most appropriately work with local hospitals to provide local access to ophthalmic treatments - ensure where necessary that the most specialist eye services are centralised into centres where sufficient volume…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/23861/Release-Register-December-16---February-17/xls/Release_Register__December_16_-_February_17.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

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