Comm Eye Health Vol. 25 No. 78 2012. Published online 09 October, 2012
Putting patients at the centre of eye care

This issue shows how to find out what patients really think about your clinic, how to organise services with your patients in mind, and how to reach beyond the clinic to encourage more patients to come forward. We hope to give you the inspiration and tools you need to make a difference where you work.
Articles in this issue –
- Putting patients at the centre of eye care
- Understanding what patients think about eye care – and our services
- Improving our patients’ experience: ideas for change
- How to encourage patients to come for the eye services they need
- Experiences in a capital city: How we market our services
- Experiences in rural Kenya: Addressing lack of knowledge
- Welcoming patients into our eye service
- Improving patient flow through an eye clinic
- Helping patients find their way to better diabetic retinopathy care
- Community Eye Health Journal – promoting improvement in eye health for over 20 years
- Taping an eyelid closed
- Tape correction for lower eyelid entropion
- Checking and replacing fuses
- Eliminating trichiasis: the next steps forward
- Diagnose This Quiz