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Community Eye Centres
The Optometry department provides support for the Community Eye Centres, working in clinics around the city of Leeds.
The current Community Eye Centres (CECs) are:
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St. George's Centre
St Georges Road
Leeds
LS10 4UZ
The support at present involves an optometrist working in a multi disciplinary team of nurses and ophthalmologists undertaking pre and post operative cataract assessments and glaucoma referral refinement and monitoring clinics.
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Rutland Lodge
The Optometry service provides a glaucoma referral refinement clinic on Thursday mornings.
| The Rutland Lodge provides services for the patients of Leeds North East Primary Care Trust. The building, owned and operated by the practice of Dr Pritlove & partners, opened in April 2005 and part of the first floor is being used as a Community Eye Centre. The Eye Centre offer better access for patients in North East and parts of North West Leeds and enables them to have treatment in a community based setting. Referrals into the Community Eye Centre are made by GPs or Optometrists. | Â |  |
Clinics provided include Community Paediatric eye clinics, Glaucoma, Minor Operations, Age Related Macular Degeneration, and a Retinal Screening service for patients with Diabetes. The clinics are staffed by Consultants, Optometrists and Nurses from Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.