Impact of the junior doctors' industrial action on the emergency eye department in a large tertiary ophthalmic hospital: the Manchester experience.

Purpose: To assess the impact of the junior doctors' industrial action on one of the largest emergency eye departments (EED) in the United Kingdom.

Methods: We compared staff allocation, patient presentation, time in streaming, time in the department, the Manchester Triage System (MTS) score, number of eye emergencies and follow-up care of patients who attended the EED in the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (MREH) during the 3-day industrial action (13-15 March 2023) compared with control periods 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after the industrial action.

Results: During the industrial action, there were almost 1.

Management of cicatricial ectropion secondary to pyoderma gangrenosum.

Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare condition with few cases of eyelid involvement reported in the literature. Pathergy is a well-recognised phenomenon that can trigger this condition. Pyoderma gangrenosum should be considered in cases of progressive cribriform cicatrisation where there is a history of antecedent trauma.