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Can the NHS cope with demand for treatment for the UK's most common cause of blindness?

Can the NHS cope with the demand for Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration treatment? We visit a new mobile eye clinic hoping to help more patients.

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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Tue 22 Mar 2011 20:40
主播大秀 Radio 4

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