title: When best-laid plans unravel.
abstract: I need to streamline my practice, I thought. If I halve time spent on pre-operative assessment, more patients will get through the system, which means fewer people hanging around as their cataracts worsen.
authors.affiliation: Hampshire.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bates
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010934:Planning Techniques