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Contribution is acknowledged from the Way Forward Steering Committee and Reference Group: Tom Bremridge, Barny Foot, David Morsman, Rachel Pilling, Richard Smith, John Somner, John Sparrow, Rachel Stancliffe, and Peter Tiffin. The Way Forward project was funded by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Subsequent Salary support for JCB is provided by the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust through the Commonwealth Eye Health Consortium.
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Buchan, J., Amoaku, W., Barnes, B. et al. How to defuse a demographic time bomb: the way forward?. Eye 31, 1519–1522 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.2017.114
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