Gwyn Samuel Williams

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Why do you want to become a Doctor? - Eye

Dec 18, 2024 | nature.com | Gwyn Samuel Williams

My son is a new medical student at Cardiff University and had to answer this very question multiple times at interviews for which I helped him practice. It’s one of those deceptively simple questions with a whole world of meaning. Medicine is a vocation, it’s about helping society, making a difference, my grandmother was ill once and I was moved by the care she received, we have a duty to help the less fortunate and I find the human body fascinating in all its complexity. Blah, blah, blah. Words.
A Novel Optometry-Led Decision-Making Community Referral Refinement Scheme for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Screening

Nov 13, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Francis WB Sanders |Rebecca John |Philip Jones |Gwyn Samuel Williams

AbstractBackground The prevalence of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) continues to increase. Hospital Eye Services are operating above capacity, innovative solutions to minimise the high proportion of false negative referrals, improve the care pathway and increase capacity for those patients who need ongoing care are essential are essential.
The unmet need for certification of vision impairment for people accessing a national primary care‐based low vision rehabilitation service

Nov 1, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Rebecca John |Gwyn Samuel Williams |Tim Morgan |Michael George

The rates of certification of vision impairment do not reflect the number of people living with certifiable vision impairment. This study adds previously unreported population level data regarding the unmet need for certification. Given this unmet need, consideration should be given to primary care certification in the rest of the UK, and in Wales, the potential to expand the scope of conditions.
The sexist lens addressing cataract-induced blindness in women

Oct 3, 2024 | eyenews.uk.com | Jaskaran Singh |Gwyn Samuel Williams

3 October 2024 | | Cataract and Refractive Ninety percent of the world’s blind population resides in low-income, developing countries [1]. The primary cause of their blindness is cataract, a condition that is easily treatable and unnecessary.
Question or statement? A guide for session chairs at the RCOphth Congress - Eye

Jul 16, 2024 | nature.com | Gwyn Samuel Williams

I had the pleasure of attending all 4 days of the Annual Congress of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists at Belfast in May this year.
Phaco and Fordism - Eye

Jan 17, 2024 | nature.com | Gwyn Samuel Williams

Amrit Hayre’s article raises a huge number of very important and interesting issues in a concise efficient manner, highlighting the multiple differences between NHS based cataract care and those found in an Eye Camp in Punjab [1]. These differences are stark; a huge difference in numbers of cases on lists, achieved by economies of scale, a production line mentality and the paring back of consent and communication right back to the bone. Right through the bone in fact.
The treason of the long knives - Eye

Nov 28, 2023 | nature.com | Gwyn Samuel Williams

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells of how Gwrtheyrn, the High King of the Britons (Vortigern in English) invited the Germanic brothers Hengist and Horsa to settle with their clan on the Isle of Thanet in modern day Kent who in return would then act as perpetual mercenaries to the king in his fight against the Picts and Gaels.