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Decision Report 201810555

  • Case ref:
    201810555
  • Date:
    June 2020
  • Body:
    Lanarkshire NHS Board
  • Sector:
    Health
  • Outcome:
    Not upheld, no recommendations
  • Subject:
    clinical treatment / diagnosis

Summary

Ms C had cataract surgery (a procedure that involves replacing a cloudy eye lens with a clear artificial one) at Hairmyres Hospital. Ms C stopped using the eye drops she had been prescribed and she began to have a feeling of discomfort in her eye. Ms C visited her optician who said there seemed to be a scratch on its surface. Ms C complained that something went wrong during her cataract surgery.

We took independent advice from an ophthalmologist (a specialist in eye disorders). We found that Ms C's cataract surgery was technically successful. We considered it was most likely that Ms C had suffered a small accidental scratch to the lens of her eye during the cataract surgery, which is a recognised complication. However, we found that there were no failings in how her cataract surgery was carried out. We also found that Ms C was given appropriate treatment for the discomfort she experienced. We did not uphold Ms C's complaint.

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