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Life as a Global Citizen Consultant Ophthalmologist: a personal view of working in Scotland and Tanzania

3 October 2022 | | EYE - General
Global Citizen post - a new challenge I was looking for a new challenge. I had been in the same consultant post with a subspecialty interest in paediatrics and strabismus for 17 years and was rattling around in an empty...

SCOPE Independent Prescriber Bursary 2024 Awards

18 July 2024 | optometry, optometrist, bursary, opportunities, funding, money, opticians, awards, competition
SCOPE celebrates excellence in optometry with the 2024 Independent Prescriber Bursary Awards.

New survey reveals over half of UK adults expect to experience sight loss in the next 10 years.

18 October 2024 | macular, AMD, Apellis, industry, survey, sight loss
This survey and media article are fully organised and funded by Apellis. New survey reveals over half of UK adults expect to experience sight loss in the next 10 years. Yet more than one in four (29%) of those surveyed...

Do we really need the College to be Royal?

6 April 2021 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
It is taken for granted in this country that all the best medical colleges are Royal. That they have the royal seal of approval from on high and therefore must be the best. I have been somewhat confused for a...

The International Congress of Ophthalmology (ICO): a history

1 February 2018 | | EYE - General
Readers of Eye News will notice in the Events section that the World Congress of Ophthalmology (WOC) is scheduled to take place in Barcelona in June 2018. This is in fact the renamed International Congress of Ophthalmology (ICO) and now...

UKISCRS Cornea & Cataract Day 2026

16 March 2026
United Kingdom & Ireland Society of Cataract & Refractce Surgeons Cornea & Cataract Day 2026

Launch of the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service in UHWI Jamaica

1 June 2016 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
At 2.55pm on Wednesday 16 March 2016 the first patient was screened and given her results in the new nurse-led Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (DRS) Clinic at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Kingston, Jamaica. This was the result...

Insights from the ‘Rb-NET Challenges’ Session: Evolving approaches in global retinoblastoma management

2 April 2025 | | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Oncology
The Retinoblastoma Network (Rb-NET) Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) platform, developed by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Professor Ido Didi Fabian, is a web-based telemedicine initiative that regularly hosts virtual MDT meetings focused on the evaluation and...

Eyecare challenges in the Middle East: Priorities of a global ophthalmology task force

2 June 2025 | | EYE - General
Global ophthalmology is a rapidly evolving, multidisciplinary field that integrates clinical practice, research, and policy at national and international levels. One of its main objectives is to improve eyecare equity worldwide by preventing avoidable vision impairment. Since the launch of...

Overcoming sight impairment for the Race Across the World!

22 March 2023 | uveitis, travel
RNIB’s Tricia travels the world and takes her message that "sight loss doesn’t stop you doing anything" to BBC One.

RNIB and British Blind Sport join forces to tackle the disparity of physical activity amongst blind and partially sighted people

31 May 2023 | RNIB, British Blind Sport, See Sport Differently, exercise, charity
The UK’s leading sight loss charity, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and British Blind Sport have joined forces to launch the See Sport Differently campaign, which aims to promote accessible sports and breakdown barriers faced by blind and partially sighted people who want to get active.

Blind woman left traumatised after she feared falling in front of speeding train

26 September 2023 | RNIB, Sight Scotland, Traumatic experience, Samantha Gough, Football, Train strikes, travel
A blind woman footballer from Edinburgh was left traumatised after she feared falling in front of a speeding train when rail staff never showed up to help her.