Bionic eye that restores sight to the blind is made available on the NHS: £150,000 device uses tiny video camera to transmit images to a chip on the back of the eyeball

Bionic eye that restores sight to the blind is made available on the NHS: £150,000 device uses tiny video camera to transmit images to a chip on the back of the eyeball NHS England will fund it for ten patients in a 12-month pilot starting next month. They will then be assessed for a year before officials decide whether to roll the system out more widely in early 2019. The Daily Mail

See also:

• 'Amazing difference that little bit of light can make' BBC News
• Ten people to get NHS bionic eyes BBC News
• NHS is to fund "bionic eyes" The Daily Telegraph
• Blind NHS patients to be fitted with pioneering bionic eye The Guardian