Second Sight Medical Products (NASDAQ: EYES) has made a groundbreaking achievement after advisors issued a positive recommendation to the UK Government’s healthcare funding authority for specialized services in England. For the first time in the UK, the publicly funded NHS system will fund blind patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) to receive treatment with Second Sight’s innovative Argus® II Retinal Prosthesis System (Argus II) “bionic eye.” A selective group of severely blind patients with RP will have access to Argus II, the world’s first and only routinely used treatment for severe blindness. The hospitals and Second Sight will provide follow up, rehabilitation and support to patients receiving an implant. “This is a major milestone for Second Sight because we are the only company able to demonstrate a favorable long-term benefit-to-risk statement up to five years after implantation for some RP patients. NHS England is known to be under significant financial pressure and also extremely selective in adopting innovative technologies – which must demonstrate sufficient value for money. We expect that this decision will be observed throughout the world by other healthcare agencies,” Will McGuire, president and CEO of Second Sight stated in the news release.
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About Second Sight
Second Sight’s mission is to develop, manufacture and market innovative implantable visual prosthetics to enable blind individuals to achieve greater independence. Second Sight developed and manufactures the Argus® II Retinal Prosthesis System. Enrollment has been completed in a trial to test the safety and utility of the Argus II in individuals with Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Second Sight is also developing the Orion™ I Visual Cortical Prosthesis to restore some vision to individuals who are blind due to causes other than preventable or treatable conditions. US Headquarters are in Sylmar, CA, and European Headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.secondsight.com
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