Two roles
There are two distinct jobs behind this site. The editorial team researches, writes and maintains the pages: reading the guidance, checking price lists, keeping treatment descriptions current and answering corrections. Clinical review is done separately by consultant ophthalmic surgeons who practise the procedures described; they approve the clinical content of a page before their name is attached to it. The writers do not sign off clinical accuracy, and the surgeons do not write the marketing.
The consultants who review
The surgeons who review our clinical pages are profiled on our surgeons page, with their GMC registration and the procedures they cover. A page that has been through that review carries a “medically reviewed by” line naming the consultant; a page without one has not been clinically reviewed.
How a page gets published
A page is drafted from UK sources, checked by a second member of the editorial team who did not write it, sent for clinical review where it describes a procedure, and published with its review date set. When a reader reports a problem, the page is re-checked against the source and corrected if the reader was right.
What the team does not do
Nobody here will diagnose you, recommend a specific surgeon over another, or tell you which procedure to have. Those are clinical decisions for a consultant who has examined your eyes. What we can do is make sure that by the time you reach that consultation you understand the options well enough to ask the right questions.
Contact
Corrections and questions about how a page was produced come through the contact form.