NUH Eye Casualty Updated Hours
A service change will be implemented on Monday 19th January 2026 within the eye casualty department. This change will bring their service offer much more in line with other Eye Casualty services across the country.
They will continue to have a normal walk in eye casualty department between the hours of 08:00 and 16:00, but post 16:00 the service model will change.
Rather than a walk in and wait service, out of hours patients instead will have telephone triage into booked appointments between 16:00-20:00.
After 20:00 the ophthalmology on call arrangements will be in place.
All patients triaged as emergencies will still be seen through this model.
NUH will monitor the service change carefully to ensure there are no unintended consequences. They don’t believe there will be and in fact it is likely that a good number of patients will experience a more appropriate scheduled service without having to undergo a long wait in the department.
They plan to evaluate the service change after 12 weeks as well and will present the findings to Overview and Scrutiny Committees and other system forums as necessary.