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Patient care
Objective 3:
Supporting patient care
We support the development and wellbeing of Moorfields staff,
their delivery of outstanding and safe patient care and patient
experience. And we fund innovative equipment, facilities and
initiatives for improved diagnosis, treatment and patient wellbeing.
Wellbeing of children and their families
Moorfields Eye Charity
supports innovation in
paediatric patient care
and research at Moorfields
and UCL. We invest in new
technology, equipment,
pioneering research and
patient wellbeing to help
children, including children’s
counselling at the hospital.
The provision of psychological
and emotional therapy for
children is vital to supporting
them with the impact of sight
loss. Thanks to generous
support from the Masonic
Charitable Foundation we
have been able to expand
specialist counselling services
for children and young people
at Moorfields.
Esi Noonoo, counsellor for
children and young people,
works at Moorfields to
provide therapeutic services
to children and adolescents
– and sometimes the whole
family – to help them come
to terms with their condition.
Working closely with parents
is key, and each child is very
much shaped by the way their
family communicates and
copes with their diagnosis.
Esi joined Moorfields in
September 2016 and saw her
first patient in January 2017
after familiarising herself with
all the different departments
and setting up the relevant
systems and procedures in the
hospital.
She has learned through her
work that the sight loss is
not always the main focus of
children’s anxieties; instead
the focus tends to be on how
they perceive themselves
and how they think they
are perceived by those
around them. Much of Esi’s
work involves supporting
young people with building
confidence and making
connections while moving
through the world following
their diagnosis.