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Sharing knowledge
Strategic objective 4:
Support sharing knowledge
Collaboration and knowledge exchange are a vital
part of research and innovation, ensuring that
researchers and clinicians have access to the very
latest developments.
At Moorfields Eye Charity, we invest in opportunities
to bring clinicians and researchers together, as well
as offer support for them to build collaborations
into their work.
Shaping the future of eye health:
the James Lind Alliance priority refresh
In 2013, the UK’s ophthalmology research community and
patients came together to set the nation’s most pressing
research priority questions for eye health. They did this
through the James Lind Alliance (JLA) Sight Loss and
Vision Priority Setting Partnership (PSP). For more than a
decade, these priority questions have helped steer funding
applications and research.
the original 2013 findings.
The top-ranked questions
included enhancing
knowledge in areas such as
early detection of childhood
visual disorders, developing
more effective glaucoma
treatments, preventing and
Moorfields Eye Charity
the evolving needs of patients,
participated in a recent
clinicians, and society.
refresh of the questions. The
Between 2021 and 2023, more
exercise was led by the NIHR
than 2,200 individuals across
Ophthalmology Specialty
the UK participated in an
Group and the Executive Group
extensive online survey that
of the UK Clinical Eye Research
spanned nine ophthalmology
Dr Ailish Murray, director
Strategy. This collaborative
subspecialties. Participants
of grants and research at
effort helps ensure that
identified and ranked key
Moorfields Eye Charity,
research remains relevant to
research questions, building on
explained the importance
managing dry age-related
macular degeneration, and
better understanding of
neurodegenerative vision
conditions.
