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Radio 4,22 Mar 2011,20 mins
Can the NHS cope with demand for treatment for the UK's most common cause of blindness?
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We speak to a leading ophthalmologist who says patients' eyesight is at risk as the NHS is being forced to ration services. With increasing demand for the treatment of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration - which is the UK's most common form of blindness - can the NHS cope ? We go to the opening of a new mobile eye clinic in North Yorkshire hoping to help. And in a second helping of Can't See Will Cook, Richard Lane learns how to make shortbread biscuits.
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