{"id":8481,"date":"2020-12-11T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T03:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=519"},"modified":"2020-12-11T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T03:51:55","slug":"new-look-ophthalmology-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/newsletters\/news-at-the-royal\/new-look-ophthalmology-department","title":{"rendered":"New Look Ophthalmology Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-571 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/12\/opthamology.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In January 2020 the trajectory of the RBWH Ophthalmology Outpatients indicated long wait patients would by more than 3,360 by 30 June. MN Outpatient Strategies partnered with RBWH Ophthalmology team to stabilise the waiting list and improve access to Ophthalmology patients in future.<\/p>\n<p>The project improved patient workflows by redesigning and refurbishing the outpatient area, extending room capacity, increasing clinic activity and entering into collaboratives including with QUT and the GPLO program.<\/p>\n<p>RBWH Ophthalmology Director Maria Moon said that after nearly 10 months of hard work the renovations and refurbishment of the Outpatients Ophthalmology Department are complete and the disruption to staff and patients has been well worth it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patients flow has improved immensely, and the colour coded chairs help identify the patients quickly and easily,\u201d Maria said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project was able to achieve a stabilised waiting list with 1540 long wait patients as at 1 July 2020 (1822 patients less than the projection).<\/p>\n<p>This was achieved even with the reduction in activity and change in service delivery to accommodate COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RBWH Ophthalmology Department has redesigned and refurbished their outpatient working area to assist with patient flow and room capacity as the service demand increases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[194],"class_list":["post-8481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-at-the-royal","tag-rbwh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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