{"id":3497,"date":"2026-07-14T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:01:49","slug":"sunderland-specialist-eye-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/2026\/07\/14\/sunderland-specialist-eye-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland Specialist Eye Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Services are moving from the current\u00a0Sunderland\u00a0Eye Infirmary site on Queen Alexandra Road to\u00a0Sunderland\u00a0Specialist Eye Hospital in the city centre from 11 July.<\/p>\n<p>The address is:<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland\u00a0Specialist Eye Hospital<\/p>\n<p>Plater Way<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland<\/p>\n<p>SR1 3AE.<\/p>\n<p>Our Emergency Department is the first to move.\u00a0<strong>It will open at 2pm on Saturday 11 July<\/strong>. All other services will open by Thursday 23 July. A breakdown is below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emergency Department (ED)\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; opens 2pm, Saturday 11 July\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Our ward, Queen Alexandra Unit\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; opens Saturday 11 July<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Theatres<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>moves Monday 13 July, reopens Wednesday 15 July<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cataract Treatment Centre (CTC)\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; moves Tuesday 14 July, reopens Thursday 16 July<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Outpatients\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; moves Monday 20 July, reopens Wednesday 22 July<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Orthoptics and Optometry<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>moves Tuesday 21 July, reopens Thursday 23 July<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beyond the actual moving days, capacity is back to full with no reduction except the moving days themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patients:<\/strong> Regular patients, or those who have care booked with us, need to check their appointment letter to find out where their next appointment will take place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HESPs:<\/strong> Please continue to send directly to the optometry department.\u00a0 Please send referrals to the new hospital beyond the 20\/07\/2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Services are moving from the current\u00a0Sunderland\u00a0Eye Infirmary site on Queen Alexandra Road to\u00a0Sunderland\u00a0Specialist Eye Hospital in the city centre from 11 July. The address is: Sunderland\u00a0Specialist Eye Hospital Plater Way Sunderland SR1 3AE. Our Emergency Department is the first to move.\u00a0It will open at 2pm on Saturday 11 July. All other services will open by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/2026\/07\/14\/sunderland-specialist-eye-hospital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunderland Specialist Eye Hospital&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loc-online.co.uk\/northumberlandtyneandwear-loc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}