Increasing access to cataract surgery in Counties Manukau by optimising the clinical pathway: a quality improvement report.

Aim: To streamline the cataract surgery pathway to improve the time from first specialist assessment (FSA) to surgery, while reducing the clinical priority assessment criteria (CPAC) score from 55 to 50.

Method: A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma tools and the Model for Improvement. Most data were collected from the i.