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Glaucoma UK announces £100,000 Health and Social Care Professionals Award for 2024

Glaucoma UK is pleased to announce that applications for its Health and Social Care Professionals Research Award are now open.

Introducing: the Glaucoma Field Defect Classifier

For patients with advanced glaucoma, there are no treatments to reverse severe sight impairment (blindness). Support in the community is essential but requires a certificate of visual impairment (CVI) signed by a consultant ophthalmologist. The criteria for certification are ambiguous...

The Retinal Atlas (2nd Edition)

Those readers familiar with the first edition of The Retinal Atlas will appreciate the comprehensive nature of this publication, and this latest version incorporates retinal images generated by recently developed imaging technology. As the title suggests, this hardcover version is...

Ophthalmology Secrets, Fifth Edition

Janice Gault presents the fifth edition of the critically acclaimed Ophthalmology Secrets. If you are someone like me, who is sceptical and needs persuaded to add another textbook to their collection, let me be the first to convince you the...

Management of squint with near-distance angle disparity

These are a group of strabismus disorders where the angle of misalignment is different between near and distance. The focus of this article will be on the patients where the angle for near exceeds the distance angle by more than...

On reflection

Welcome one and all to our festive Eye News Dec/Jan 2024. The arrow of time has flown through 2023, landing us at the year’s end, but not before Santa brings you this special delivery. Aside from the partying and generally...

Ophthalmic exposure for emergency medicine doctors

Emergency medicine is a challenging specialty which requires managing a range of acute issues. In this article, I explore the experiences of emergency doctors towards ophthalmic cases presenting in the emergency department, identifying what initiatives have helped trainees. Emergency medicine...

Artificial intelligence could transform patient education in eyecare

A multilingual, voice-enabled chatbot helps patients access retinal detachment advice through personalised, real-time, clinically grounded conversations. From hospital leaflets to spoken answers in dozens of languages, new research from the University of East London (UEL) suggests artificial intelligence could dramatically...

Charles Bonnet Syndrome emerges from the shadows

There has been a ground-breaking response to the online Charles Bonnet Syndrome Patient Information event on 16 November.

Charity partners celebrate 10 years in Zambia

Vision Aid Overseas and Specsavers are celebrating 10 years of working together.

Updated MOSUK website

This year marked the 25th anniversary of the Medical Ophthalmology Society UK (MOSUK) meeting, which first took place in 1999 at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.

Wiseman Fund recipient expands low vision knowledge

Gemma Gould, a lecturer in optometry at the University of Manchester, has recently attended the International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation conference 2025 in Florence, thanks to support from the Wiseman Fund. “I presented a poster of my...