Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai's Model of Care Provides a Blueprint for International Healthcare Expansion in the Middle East - Seite 2

Treating patients and delivering services 

Since opening, Moorfields Dubai has treated more than 150,000 patients from over 185 countries. Moorfields Dubai provides day case surgery and outpatient diagnostic and treatment services for most surgical and non-surgical eye conditions, equivalent to that available at our UK main sites.

Eye care is managed by the Moorfields team of multilingual and multicultural resident ophthalmic professionals, each with a distinctive area of subspecialisation. Many of the consultants in Dubai undertook their training at Moorfields London and all of them are based in the Middle East full time, to ensure the quality and consistency of patient care and follow up.

Critically, Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai maintains close links with London, to ensure that our patients receive the Moorfields standard of eye care and treatment. The hospital works to the regulatory governance framework and quality control standards of the local regulator, Dubai Health Care City Authority. The hospital applies the same clinical governance and operational procedures as Moorfields Eye Hospital London, where relevant.

Developing Abu Dhabi 

Moorfields and United Eastern Medical Services (UEMS), Abu Dhabi's leading privately owned healthcare development and Investment Company, signed a partnership agreement to establish Moorfields Eye Hospital Centre in Abu Dhabi (Moorfields Abu Dhabi), which opened in April 2016.

It was a natural progression, given Moorfields' years of experience treating Abu Dhabi residents, through its collaboration with Health Plus Center, part of UEMS. Moorfields Abu Dhabi provides a comprehensive range of specialist ophthalmological services, including surgical and non-surgical treatments for common and complex eye conditions in children and adults, and the centre replicates the same approach and standards as Moorfields Dubai in its full time consultant team, clinical care, training, and teaching.

Extending the model 

Most recently, Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai has formed an affiliation agreement with Al Jalila Children's Specialty Hospital (AJCSH) in Dubai with the aim of providing paediatric ophthalmology clinical care and exploring other collaborative initiatives such as clinical research, training and education.

For Moorfields, this is an excellent opportunity to create wider patient access to ophthalmic care, including complex ophthalmic conditions and those associated with systemic disease, in a fully equipped, multi-specialty hospital.