Key dates for the NOD audit data collection, submission and reporting
Overview of the key dates for the NOD audits.
2024 National Cataract Audit Report and Key Findings
The seventh annual report for the National Ophthalmology Database Audit for cataract surgery shows a continuation of the year-on-year reduction in complication rates. Available to download is a NOD Cataract Audit PowerPoint template that can be used to present at your next audit meeting.
You can find all the previous Cataract Annual Reports listed here.
2025 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) Audit Year 3 Report
The Third Annual Report of the National Ophthalmology Database (NOD) AMD Audit presents an analysis of data submitted by 73 centres across all four home nations and Guernsey. More centres participated than in the second year and the growing participation and size of the dataset suggest an acceptance of the clinical application of the audit and add validity to the findings. Treatment providers can use the information to compare outcomes with national aggregates and local peers, identify key clinical care processes and share best practice.
NOD AMD Audit Year 3 Centre Results [xlsx format]
Information for patients about the AMD audit [Word format]
Information for patients about the AMD audit [PDF format]
You can find all the previous AMD Annual Reports listed here.
All NOD publications
In addition to our audit reports, we widely publish outputs in peer review journals adding to international community knowledge base and informing changes in practice.
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) for Cataract Surgery
Seeing is Believing: Implementing PROM for Cataract Surgery
View our PROM webinar from March 2022 looking at the use of a self-reported patient centred outcome for cataract surgery and its future use in the NOD national cataract audit.
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) for cataract surgery
Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are ideally suited to interventions for symptomatic conditions such as cataract surgery. Cataract causes symptomatic visual difficulties for those affected, with surgery undertaken to relieve those difficulties. Cat-PROM5 has been developed to measure cataract related visual difficulties which adversely impact vision related quality of life, and their relief from surgery. The NOD is currently running a second pilot with the aim to assess the feasibility of collecting nationally PROMs for cataract surgery nationally as a primary patient centred outcome of benefit of cataract surgery within the scope of the national cataract audit. Read the Health Quality Improvement Partnership early stage feasibility study this new pilot is building on.