A Bradford hospital has teamed up with a Yorkshire company to provide people with a state-of-the-art eye treatment.

Bradford's Yorkshire Eye Hospital, the region's only specialist eye hospital, has teamed up with Yorkshire-based Lenstec, a provider of lens implants, to offer patients life changing treatments.

The two organisations are also working closely together on charitable projects in Madagascar, including the creation of outreach centres to treat the many people suffering from needless blindness on the Indian Ocean island.

The hospital's eye consultants have started working with the Tetraflex' intraocular lens, which is permanently implanted inside the eye to restore distance and intermediate vision along with reading vision to patients suffering from presbyopia.

Oliver Backhouse, consultant ophthalmologist at the Yorkshire Eye Hospital in Apperley Bridge, said: "When you are young, the various parts of the eye work in harmony and your natural lens makes subtle changes in shape allowing you to switch focus from far to near effortlessly. This is called accommodation.

"In our mid 40s, the eye's lens is no longer able to make delicate adjustments so one loses the ability to move between near and far vision.

"This is why many middle aged men and women have to start wearing reading glasses for close work, computer work and even reading menus etc. This loss of accommodation is called presbyopia.

"These accommodating' lenses are the way forward."