Peter K. Leaver FRCS FRCOphth, Retired consultant ophthalmologist £37.50,  978-1-85315-580-2,  376pp,  Hardback,  July 2004

Doctors.net, September 2004
… a pleasurable read… it deserves a place on every ophthalmologist's shelf, firstly as a genuinely good bedtime read, but also as a record of development and achievement of this highly regarded centre of medical excellence, which celebrates its bicentenary in 2005.

Journal of the Medical Sciences Historical Society, September 2004
The author is to be congratulated for presenting Moorfields' enormous contribution to ophthalmology over the past forty years to the general public. It is meticulously written, packed with information and the many colored plates illustrate the people and life in Moorfields Hospital

Official Journal of the International Society, December 2004
The author, who was both trainee and consultant at the hospital, manages to convey a comprehensive, moving picture in an easy style and there are a number of illustrations, some in colour. This finely presented history deserves reading by more than those with direct links with Moorfields. It offers an insight into the way many hospitals work and what it is like to work in them.

This comprehensive account, coinciding with its bicentenary, covers the last forty years in the history of Moorfields, the oldest and largest specialist eye hospital in the Western world. These four decades have been some of the most turbulent and progressive in its history. This book follows on from two previous volumes about Moorfields Eye Hospital by Treacher Collins (1929) and Frank Law (1975).

Written in a freely narrative style, the book explores the technological, socio-economic and cultural influences that have mapped and directed the Hospital’s course over the last forty years, including:

a general account of the Hospital’s history from the early 1960s to the present day

detailed explanation of the changes in clinical services

The volume, with a foreword by Professor Douglas Coster AO, is illustrated with a wealth of photographs and anecdotes that illuminate the momentous changes in technology, culture and economics, which have influenced Moorfields in recent years.

The author spent over 30 years working at Moorfields Eye Hospital as registrar, senior registrar, consultant surgeon and finally Director of (medical) Education. He has undertaken extensive research, interviewing more than 150 members of Moorfields staff, past and present, reading reports and papers and consulting the records from the Hospital archives to cover every aspect of the changes to the Hospital and throughout medicine during this period.

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust


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