Comm Eye Health Vol. 26 No. 83 2013. Published online 18 November, 2013
Balancing the books
Over the coming years, eye care services and organisations will have to sustain themselves and also expand significantly to meeting growing needs. To address this urgent topic, this issue shares case studies and suggests ways to reduce costs, generate income, and efficiently manage supply chains to ensure uninterrupted services; all while keeping the focus firmly on quality.
Articles in this issue –
- Balancing the books
- About this issue
- Patient flow and cost
- On our own feet: preparing for the donor to leave
- Help! No IOLs for cataract surgery
- Practical accounting for eye programmes: an introduction
- Primary level management of eye injury/trauma
- Procurement support for eye care
- Sustainable eye care at Kitale Eye Unit
- How fixed fees and patient choice can support eye care for the poorest
- How to check and record a patient’s body temperature
- Tips for fundraising
- Fungus: how to prevent growth and remove it from optical instruments
- Mali: achieving success along the path to trachoma elimination
- Working towards sustainable eye care at district hospitals in Viet Nam
- Approaching full cost recovery: the IAM NOOR eye care programme
- Universal eye health: increasing access for the poorest
Continuing professional development –
News and notices –
- Disability update
- Investing in vision pays off
- Community Eye Health Update 8
- Meetings
- Glaucoma Africa discussion group
- Courses
Further information about this issue –
Consulting editor: Allen Foster
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