Moorfields Eye Hospital

Moorfields Eye Hospital

Moorfields Eye Hospital is a National Health Service eye hospital in central London. It is in the London Borough of Islington, on City Road, and is close to Old Street tube station.

It was founded on the Moorfields in 1805 as the London Dispensary for curing diseases of the Eye and Ear, by John Cunningham Saunders. It moved to its present site in 1899, and was nationalised in 1948.