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Features

Developing a unified approach to low-vision care

20 August 2025 | Preeti Singla, Louise Gow | EYE - General

RNIB’s Preeti Singla and Louise Gow introduce the Adult Low Vision Service Quality Framework. For individuals living with visual impairment, access to high-quality low vision services can be life changing. Yet, across the UK, these services remain fragmented, with significant...

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My Top Five

My Top Five: Tips for maximising your ophthalmology elective in the UK as an international medical student

4 August 2025 | Tharaa Allawama | EYE - General

Practical strategies for international medical students to maximise their ophthalmology elective in the UK, including networking, skill building and research opportunities. An ophthalmology elective is an incredible opportunity to gain hands-on experience, develop clinical skills and connect with professionals in...

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Events

  • Moorfields: Cataract, medical retina and disc assessment
    The Cataract/medical retina/ disc assessment short course has been designed to meet the training...
  • BEAVRS: Manchester Scleral Buckling Course
    British & Éire Vitreoretinal Society
  • Practice Plus Group: Facilitating precise patient referrals for YAG capsulotomy - expertise and application
    Practice Plus Group is delighted to offer an accredited event for local referrers: ‘Facilitating...
  • BIOS: Northern Clinical Meeting
    British and Irish Orthoptic Society
  • Moorfields Education: Dry eye course
    This is targeted at clinicians working in primary or secondary care who are interested...
  • DEADLINE: Applications to Refraction Certificate (Birmingham) – First time applicants
  • BEECS (British Emergency Eye Care Society) Annual Meeting 2025
    British Emergency Eye Care SocietyWelcome to BEECSThe Society was founded in 2013 with the...
  • EUNOS: Neuro-Ophthalmology: From Bench to Bedside, and Back
    European Neuro-Ophthalmology Society

Humanitarian

DR-NET National DR Workshop in Tanzania: Policy, training and technology

4 August 2025 | Bernadetha Robert Shilio, Omary Ubuguyu, Charles Cleland, Moin Mohamed, Covadonga Bascaran, Marcia Zondervan | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of moderate to severe visual impairment (VI) and blindness worldwide, posing a significant public health challenge. As the prevalence of diabetes continues to rise globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the...

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Learning Curve

Lessons from ARVO 2025

4 August 2025 | Gwyn Samuel Williams | EYE - General

Conferences abroad are wonderful indeed. You get to escape from the crushing grind of reality at the NHS coalface for a few days and learn about the cutting edge of your subspecialty. By the end of these events, I actually...

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The Culture Section

¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?

4 August 2025 | Rahila Bashir | EYE - General

In the hustle and bustle of ¡Hola! (Hello) and ¿Cómo estás? (How are you?), a group of travellers from different parts of UK went on a Mexican adventure to explore the diverse culture of Mexico, diving straight into the turquoise...

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Interviews

An interview with Rachel Morris: Clinician wellbeing and difficult conversations

19 August 2025 | Peter Cackett | EYE - General | Wellbeing

In the last wellbeing supplement, I interviewed Robert Self, Vice President of the Association of Anaesthetists, and we discussed the resources that doctors can access when experiencing problems with their wellbeing. One of those that he recommended was the podcast...

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Trainees

The increasing privatisation of ophthalmology: How has and how will it affect resident doctors?

20 August 2025 | Rohan Shankarghatta, Felipe Dhawahir-Scala | EYE - Cataract

It’s well known that the rising number of private ophthalmology providers in the UK have continued to increase their market share in providing various services. Referrals from NHS trusts have continued to increase with nearly 60% of cataract operations being...

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Pete's Bogus Journey

High score

4 August 2025 | Peter Cackett | EYE - General

Louie: “Allow me to present Pac-Man. Now, who is going to be the lucky pup who gets to play the first game? Iggy! You’re a somewhat compulsive personality. Step forward. Now… you see there’s the maze.” Iggy: “Uh-huh” Louie: “All...

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Case Reports

Shedding light on Wolfram syndrome: The unveiling of a delayed diagnosis

12 August 2025 | Valeria Antoniou, Sonia Kafkalia, Katerina Papastavrou, Theodoros Potamitis, Antigoni Koukkoulli | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology

Wolfram syndrome 1 (WS1) was first described by Wolfram and Wagener in 1938 and it’s a rare neurodegenerative, progressive disorder, also known as DIDMOAD (diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, and deafness) [1]. We present an atypical case of WS...

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Past events

AI & Oculomics

Developments in retinal pigmentation measurement and the hopes of an equitable future

4 August 2025 | Nima John Ghadiri, Abraham Olvera-Barrios, Anand Rajesh | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging

Our AI & Oculomics co-editor, Nima Ghadiri, sat down with Abraham Olvera-Barrios from Moorfields and Anand Rajesh from the University of Washington to discuss their recent international study into retinal pigmentation and its wider clinical, technological and academic applications. Can...

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Industry News

  • New Online Ophthalmology Portfolio Points Calculator
    Applying for Ophthalmology ST1 is a competitive and often stressful process, with many applicants...
  • Oertli launches the OS 4 UpTM surgical platform along with new instruments for retina and cataract surgery
    Berneck, 4th September 2025 – Oertli Instrumente AG presented its surgical platform, the OS...
  • Advancing Eyecare (AEC) acquires Birmingham Optical Group
    Advancing Eyecare (AEC), a leading North American provider of ophthalmic instruments, has acquired Birmingham...
  • SCOPE Announces 2025 Independent Prescriber Bursary Award Winners
    SCOPE is proud to announce the winners of its 2025 Independent Prescriber (IP) Bursary...
  • Glaukos & Glaucoma UK join forces to visit Westminster
    To mark Glaucoma Awareness Week 2025, a parliamentary drop-in session was held on Wednesday,...
  • Thinking about purchasing your first Volk lens or looking to expand your collection?
    Sister companies Altomed and Mid-Optic are proud to be official Volk distributors. With over...

Top Tips

Poppers retinopathy: What is it and how do we treat it?

2 June 2025 | Alexander Benson | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Poppers retinopathy is a relatively unknown phenomenon which afflicts users of poppers but should be considered as a differential in sudden-onset or sub-acute visual acuity loss – particularly in patients with a history of recreational drug use. Raising awareness of...

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Cybertalk

What's trending Aug/Sep 2025

4 August 2025 | Amit Dhalla | EYE - Orbit, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Oculoplastic

A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #Euros #Lionesses What a treat it is to be a football fan at the moment. An enthralling season in the Premier...

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Allied Professions

  • Audiology and ophthalmology: A comparative perspective on diagnostics and patient care
    I’m here with Chris Gordon and Anthony Vukic from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust...
  • Managing an outreach eye service… 8000 miles away!
    In 1997, Paul Rosen, a relatively newly appointed consultant surgeon to the Oxford Eye...

Medico-Legal

The results of the last survey Jun25

2 June 2025 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea

The first question refers to whether we check blood glucose levels prior to cataract surgery. Almost three quarters of you do which was interesting. We know that poor glycaemic control (manifesting as a raised HbA1c) has implications for wound healing...

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Tech Reviews

  • Internet security Q&A
    Internet security advice is constantly changing in response to new and evolving threats. For...
  • Useful, interesting, or maybe both
    This column is often, but not always, about ophthalmic tech. This is one of...
  • The future of SLT?
    For Feb/Mar 2024, we are looking at a recently released laser machine to perform...

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News

  • Standby for standards: Ophthalmic imaging
    The Ophthalmic Imaging Associating (OIA) will propose and publish a volume of refined standards...
  • Second major survey calls for people with sight loss to review ideas for innovation of post diagnostic support for blind and partially sighted people
    This September the UK’s largest sight loss charity, The Royal National Institute of Blind...
  • Registration launches for 100% Optical and 100% Ophthalmology 2026
    Organisers have announced that free registration for 100% Optical, the UK’s largest optical exhibition,...
  • AI predicts eye damage from autoimmune drug, years before symptoms appear
    A novel AI tool could transform screening for patients taking hydroxychloroquine by spotting early...
  • Children with vision impairment waiting up to 18 months for essential life skills training
    Only one in four Scottish councils meets the national standard for habilitation support, leaving...
  • Blind community hub reopens in Edinburgh
    The Royal National Institute of Blind People Scotland (RNIB Scotland) has officially reopened its...

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