Operation cataract
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Operation cataract

John Ralph Charge nurse
Carmen Otero
Bev Hammond Staff nurses, Pentney ward, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn

A team of nurses, doctors and volunteers got together to offer ophthalmic surgery to 45 people. John Ralph, Carmen Otero and Bev Hammond explain how the initiative worked

Over the weekend of March 10, 11, and 12-1-1995, patients underwent contract extraction and lens implant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn as parr of Operation Cataract.

Nursing Standard. 9, 34, 18-20. doi: 10.7748/ns.9.34.18.s31

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