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Do you have four minutes? Glaucoma service questionnaire.
Please take four minutes to complete this questionnaire which aims to examine the role of healthcare professionals for care provision within the glaucoma service.
PREVIEW: National Student Ophthalmology Conference (NSOC) 2024
The annual National Student Ophthalmology Conference (NSOC) will return for its third year running On Sunday, March 24th, in a virtual setting.
Ophthalmic Aid to Eastern Europe (OAEE) Bursaries 2024
OAEE assists young eye doctors from Eastern Europe to attend as observers in specialist clinics in the UK where a fee for observerships is charged. It also helps fund teaching visits by UK ophthalmologists to Eastern Europe and gives travel bursaries to ophthalmologists and orthoptists wishing to present papers at national and international eye congresses in the region.
“She’s the Lewis Capaldi of the art world”: the young visually impaired artist transforming creativity
Hannah Evans (17) from Linlithgow, has been creating art since she was three years old and has three group exhibitions and three large solo shows under her belt. She is also partially sighted, autistic, and has specific learning and communication disabilities.
Partially sighted poet focuses on visual impairment and parenthood in new book
Glasgow-based poet Nuala Watt (39) aims to show that disabled people “have important things to say” in her latest book of poems, ‘The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish’.
Children and Young People’s Commissioner commends Sight Scotland for leading the way in inclusive education
Nicola Killean, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, has praised Sight Scotland for not only upholding the rights of visually impaired children and young people, but also empowering them to know their own rights so they can shape their own educational journey.
Low Vision Questionnaire
Participation in this survey is greatly appreciated and will help eyecare practitioners to provide the support patients with vision loss deserve.
ARU opens Sensory Sciences Centre in Cambridge
New £1.9m investment in equipment, teaching and research space for students.
Music and song inspire Freya to start speaking
Freya Reily, who is six years old from Tranent in East Lothian, is more than meets the eye. Freya, who was born very prematurely and has severe vision impairment, has been inspired by music and song to start speaking, something that her parents did not think was possible just a few short months ago.
Crisis Specs collection day brings happy faces all round
Volunteers took delight in dispensing to the Crisis at Christmas guests who returned this week to collect their glasses, with frames kindly donated by Specsavers and lenses and glazing by EssilorLuxottica.
WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
Charity’s new campaign aims to dispel negative perceptions of people living with sight loss.
Most UK doctors experiencing moral distress, survey shows
Nearly four out of five (78%) family doctors across the United Kingdom are experiencing moral distress while caring for their patients.
