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RNIB Connect Radio wins prestigious gold ARIAS award

28 May 2024 | radio, awards, RNIB, Indutry, charity
A Glasgow-based radio station has won a 2024 Audio and Radio Industry Awards (ARIAS) for Community Station of the Year. RNIB Connect Radio was established by leading sight loss charity RNIB to provide news, information and entertainment to blind and partially sighted people across the UK.

Ellen aims to inspire a future focused on accessibility

16 September 2024 | stargardts, macular degeneration, patient stories, Sight Loss Councils, Sight Scotland, Visibility Scotland, charity
Ellen Doherty, 47, who has macular degeneration due to Stargardt’s disease, became one of Scotland’s first Sight Loss Council volunteers earlier this year and is determined to inspire others to make accessibility a priority. Ellen and Callum Lancashire, Engagement Manager,...

Braille at 200: The code that changed everyday life

19 November 2024 | braille, charity, patient stories, history
Frenchman Louis Braille was in his teens in the mid-1820s when he began developing the six-dot tactile code that enables millions of blind and partially sighted people around the world to access the power of literacy. Two centuries on from...

Acute dacryoadenitis secondary to COVID-19

4 October 2023 | | EYE - General
Acute dacryoadenitis is defined as the rapid onset of discomfort and swelling of the lacrimal gland, classically giving rise to an S-shaped ptosis [1]. Dacryoadenitis is the most common cause of a painful mass in the lacrimal gland in young...

Blind gaming group levels up at five years

10 December 2025 | patient stories, technology, services
A community of gamers with sight loss from across Scotland and Northern Ireland says its network is thriving as it marks its fifth anniversary. Formed during the pandemic lockdown in November 2020, as part of RNIB’s community work, the group...

Scottish Government announces permanent free rail travel for companions of visually impaired people

19 March 2026 | charity, services, patient stories, allied professions
Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans welcome the Scottish Government announcement today that free rail travel for companions of visually impaired people has been made a permanent policy across all ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper services. Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland...

Bagpipes and breaking down barriers at Celtic Connections

9 April 2026 | charity, patient stories, training
Sight Loss Councils Scotland have launched a groundbreaking new training initiative at Celtic Connections, where for the first time in Scotland visually impaired members delivered Visual Impairment Inclusion and Sighted Guiding training to Glasgow Life and Celtic Connections staff, helping...

Report: UKEGS 2024

29 October 2024 | UKEGS, 2024, conferences, meetings, events, industry, glaucoma, Glaucoma UK, Nishani Amerasinghe, Andrew Tatham
It was an incredible experience heading down to UKEGS 2024 earlier this month in Southampton. The entire Glaucoma UK team, along with the UKEGS overseeing panel Nishani Amerasinghe, Andrew Tatham, Professir Anthony King and Professor Gus Gazzard, took great care...

Artificial intelligence and the 2024 Esme’s Umbrella Medical Student Essay Prize

2 April 2025 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
Esme’s Umbrella is a charity for people with Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS), helping raise awareness of the condition as well as offering support and advice. All clinical specialties may encounter CBS, so Esme’s Umbrella inaugurated a medical student essay prize...

Eye News Bring Artistic Eye to RCOphth

29 April 2022
Eye News is delighted to be taking some of Steve Thomson's artwork to the RCOphth in May, raising money for the charity Fight for Sight.

RCOphth 2023 Preview

15 May 2023 | RCOphth2023, preview, eye news, iccbirmingham
Here is our rundown of the RCOphth 2023 Annual Congress before it all kicks off, with dates for your diary, competitions, interviews and more!

The results of the last survey Dec20

7 December 2020 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
The responses to the first question in this survey demonstrate the need for it and the significant variation in practice we see in even relatively simple management decisions. Patients are seen regularly with occludable drainage angles and listed for YAG...