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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
By Jane Kirby

Six-year-old girl has vision restored after first-of-its-kind NHS eye gene therapy

Saffie Sandford, with her parents Lisa and Tam. - (Family handout/PA Wire)

A six-year-old girl has had her sight restored thanks to a life-changing eye gene therapy on the NHS.

Saffie Sandford, from Stevenage in Hertfordshire, has the rare inherited condition Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) which prevents cells in the eye from making a specific protein needed for normal vision.

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