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Specialist mobile trailer provider EMS Healthcare has won a major contract to supply a portable surgery unit that will help medical consultants save the sight of thousands of patients while saving them a trip of up to 84 miles for treatment. The mobile medical trailer, called ‘Liberty Plus’ will be the base for eye (ophthalmology) specialists in Yorkshire treating up to 50 patients a day with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nvARMD) - a condition that causes progressive sight loss. It is the first eye unit for EMS Healthcare, which already supplies mobile medical units for renal and cancer care. The healthcare vehicle will allow patients to visit their local hospital site for treatment, instead of undergoing a round trip of up to 84 miles to a regional unit. The mobile medical unit was commissioned by The Eye Site Clinic Ltd to deliver an injectable drug treatment to NHS patients who would otherwise rapidly go blind without it. Ophthalmology units in local NHS hospitals do not currently have the space or capacity to deal with increasing demand for the treatment. The medical unit will be initially deployed at Bridlington hospital, eventually moving to other local hospitals in the East Coast area. EMS Healthcare converted the interior of the medical trailer to create a bespoke environment that includes waiting area, two vision alleys two clinical rooms for assessment and scans, and a dedicated treatment room. The mobile healthcare unit also has a strong IT infrastructure with a core patient database that incorporates audit and patient recorded outcome measurement tools. Richard Gale, consultant ophthalmologist at York Teaching Hospital and chairman of the Eye Site Clinic Ltd said: "There are an estimated 26,000 new cases of nvARMD a year, and the demand on ophthalmology units has become overwhelming. The mobile unit will be extremely busy servicing the needs of patients requiring this vital sight-saving treatment. Eventually we hope to be able to offer this mobile service to hard pressed units throughout the country." Keith Austin, Managing Director at EMS Healthcare said: "We are proud to have won the contract to help create a cost-effective time efficient solution for reaching patients on multiple sites in this important area of ophthalmic care in the NHS. It is just one in a growing number of solutions from EMS Healthcare to help clinicians take cutting-edge treatments out to the community for patients’ ease and comfort." Ref: EMS-HS-240311
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