Comm Eye Health Vol. 36 No. 118 2023. Published online 22 May, 2023
Medicines for eye health

Medicines play a vital role in eye care; not only in the hospital, but also when patients must care for their eyes at home. Ensuring the availability, safety and effective use of eye medicines requires a team effort, with patients and their needs firmly at the centre.
Articles in this issue –
- Medicines for eye health
- Management of medicines in an eye hospital
- How we help our patients get their medicines and use them safely
- Empowering patients to manage their eye medication at home
- How to use your eye medication
- Improving adherence with eye medication: a patient-centred approach to prescribing
- Supporting patients with adherence to glaucoma medication in Ghana
- Inclusion of eye medication in national health care systems
- Valuing pharmacists as members of the eye team
- Providing eye care education for pharmacists
- The impact of oral and systemic medications on the eye
- Local production of eye drops in the hospital and pharmacy setting: important considerations and safety tips
- Ruharo Mission Hospital eye drop production facility
- How to prepare chlorhexidine eye drops
- Picture quiz
- Improving the distribution and uptake of medicines: lessons from the global trachoma programme