Improving access and safety in eye surgery

By promoting standardized regulatory oversight across all provinces, ACCESS aims to ensure that both insured and uninsured procedures are delivered in high-quality, accredited facilities—regardless of location.

Delivery of care innovation

Immediate Sequential Bilateral Intraocular (ISBI) lens surgery is performed worldwide providing patients with the benefits of less recovery time, and fewer visits with healthcare providers enabling more patients to be seen and reduce national wait times for surgery.

Members of ACCESS provided education on the safety of bilateral surgery resulting in the removal regulatory barriers in British Columbia ensuring this global standard of practice could be offered to patients.

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Safer surgery

Rapid advancements in understanding how to prevent Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome (TASS) in routine intraocular surgery are often discovered and become standard of practice before regulators and manufacturers can update regulatory standards.

ACCESS members have advocated to the Canadian Standards Association to ensure these regulatory standards were updated based on scientific data. As a result, healthcare providers can offer the safest surgical environment by not being forced to follow outdated regulatory requirements.