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Haag-Streit Academy announces course schedule for 2025

21 November 2024 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
Haag-Streit Academy are pleased to announce their course schedule for 2025, which features eight slit lamp and biometry courses in prime locations across the UK. The courses offer attendees the vital skills and knowledge to utilise their slit lamp and...

Haag-Streit ‘Slit Lamp Imaging Competition 2025’ opens for its seventh year

11 April 2025 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
Haag-Streit UK is excited to announce the return of the Haag-Streit annual “Slit Lamp Imaging Competition”, which in previous years has attracted over 1,000 entries from all over the world. Now in its seventh consecutive year, the international competition invites...

Part 2: Good news, bad news at the international conference

2 August 2024 | | EYE - General
In the second instalment of this two-part article (click here for Part 1), our editor Peter Cackett presents the ‘good news’ and ‘bad news’ from an international conference experience. Readers will remember that in the last issue I left you...

Second major survey calls for people with sight loss to review ideas for innovation of post diagnostic support for blind and partially sighted people

8 September 2025 | charity, RNIB, survey, sight loss, patient stories
This September the UK’s largest sight loss charity, The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), is launching the second in a series of major surveys to help map out the future of support for people diagnosed with serious eye...

How does your practice compare?

1 April 2019 | | EYE - General
One of the lovely things about clinical meetings and conferences is the ability to meet with your peers and ask questions of them about their practice. Often the questions are not earth shattering, for example, it could be as simple...

It’s easy when you know the rules

1 June 2019 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
As I was travelling along a deserted road on a Sunday last month I saw in my peripheral vision a disconcerting flash of light behind me. Much as I tried to convince myself that the flash was due to the...

The reps

1 August 2019 | | EYE - General
Who are the reps? Every one of us knows the friendly face of the local randomprost eye drop representative or the nice man from that eye lubricant company. These company representatives travel up and down the region with a smile,...

Social networking

1 August 2016 | | EYE - General
The use of social networking is now very common in both home and work environments. The field is expanding continually and we have had some requests for a roundup of common platforms. What is social networking and social media? As...

A connected workplace - Part 2

1 February 2019 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
In Part 1 of this topic (bit.ly/ENconnected) the need for a mature ophthalmic imaging network was described. Here, I provide a scoring scheme that can be used to articulate the maturity of existing devices. As with any scoring system, the...

The writer: publishing my first book as a trainee

1 November 2014 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Medicine is very hierarchical. Indeed, Hippocrates himself laid the foundation of the apprenticeship that is medical training and while it is the noble duty of the boss to pass on information and ask for tasks to be undertaken as a...

First blind yoga classes launched by Sight Scotland

16 October 2024 | charity, news, Sight Scotland, exercise, Patient satisfaction, community
Sight Scotland is proud to announce the launch of its first-ever yoga classes specifically designed for people living with vision impairment. These inclusive sessions offer blind and partially sighted individuals the opportunity to enjoy the physical and mental benefits of...

Keep calm and cut the carbon – improving sustainability in ophthalmology

7 December 2020 | | EYE - General
As I dump my tenth pair of gloves into a non-recyclable clinical waste bin; dispose of another handful of plastic minims; or print another wad of single-sided discharge paperwork after a cataract surgery, the inconvenient truth of how these seemingly...