Prime minister Rishi Sunak meets staff at Moorfields Eye Hospital in central London to learn about the opportunities and challenges they face. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Hi, how are you? I'm Rishi, very nice to see you.
00:04 Yeah, Sifri, how are you?
00:06 Great, well I'm excited reading all of that.
00:08 Let's show how it works.
00:10 What this is showing is the eye, so this is the retina, this is the macular.
00:15 So what we're looking at right now is that scan you were just seeing over there, the OCT scan.
00:23 And this is an example of the algorithm actually just classifying every single pixel of this image with a certain disease or a certain healthy tissue, creating a dilation.
00:32 So this is all really early work that's set up, the foundations as it were.
00:36 That's it, right.
00:37 Good morning, Rishi, how are you?
00:39 So nice to see you, thanks for having me.
00:41 It's a pleasure, I'm going to introduce you to some of our nurses.
00:44 Here's the team.
00:45 Adam, who's our nurse consultant.
00:47 We look after all sorts of conditions in relation to the back of the eye, such as diabetic macular disease.
00:54 So from a clinical perspective, we have what we call intravitreal injections, which can really help.
01:02 Maybe because we have a high volume of patients, we see an average of 100 patients per day, and we deliver 24,000 injections per year.
01:09 So when they check in, the people...