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In conversation with Captain Gary Dyson

25 July 2022 | | EYE - General
Captain Gary Dyson, Chief Pilot of the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, spoke to Chris Henson about his 22-year stint flying the plane, its role at the cutting edge of aviation and medical technology, and how Orbis plan to continue to...

Audiology and ophthalmology: A comparative perspective on diagnostics and patient care

4 December 2024 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
I’m here with Chris Gordon and Anthony Vukic from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to find out how two professions that may appear unrelated on the surface actually have a lot in common. Some of this article might surprise you....

High score

4 August 2025 | | EYE - General
Louie: “Allow me to present Pac-Man. Now, who is going to be the lucky pup who gets to play the first game? Iggy! You’re a somewhat compulsive personality. Step forward. Now… you see there’s the maze.” Iggy: “Uh-huh” Louie: “All...

Looking on the brightside: Lord David Blunkett

4 December 2025 | | EYE - General
“I can hear people smile” As a young adult in the 1980s and 1990s I gradually became more politically informed with occasional forays into BBC’s Question Time. In doing so, I learnt of the rise of politician David Blunkett, a...

Money never sleeps

5 April 2022 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
“I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich” As declared by Jordan Belfort in a motivational speech to his staff in the film Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Unfortunately, medicine as a career does not lead to...

My Top Five: Tips for organising and delivering a national ophthalmology educational series

2 October 2025 | | EYE - General
Organising a national teaching series is both deeply rewarding and surprisingly complex. It requires more than just good content – it demands a well-thought-out purpose, seamless logistics, strong communication and meaningful evaluation. Over the past year, I had the opportunity...

Deliberate darkness: The systematic weaponisation of blinding in global protests

18 March 2026 | | EYE - General
As eyecare professionals, we spend our entire professional lives fighting to preserve light. We train to master the delicate microscopic topography of the cornea, the retina and the optic nerve, all with the objective of saving our patients from the...

A personal reflection: working at the International Centre for Eye Health from 2006–2024

3 April 2024 | | EYE - General
I feel incredibly fortunate to have been working part-time at the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) [1] since 2006. Earlier in my career, the responsibilities of work and a growing family made this merely an aspiration, and apart from...

The treachery of images – making sense of OCT imaging

1 June 2016 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging
In 1929 Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte produced his painting La Trahison des Images. It depicted an old fashioned pipe for smoking tobacco and underneath were the words “ceci n’est pas une pipe”, this is not a pipe. You may wonder...

Principles of management

1 August 2016 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Pathology
Whatever section of pathology is to blame and wherever it strikes, the aim of treatment is always the same. Find the cause if you can. Establish the effects of the cause. Halt the pathological process if you can. Reverse its...

The Eye Health Network – an ‘optometry-first’ approach to eye care

1 April 2014 | | EYE - Cornea
Historically, in NHS Grampian, ophthalmology and optometry worked separately, with even the process of optometry referral to hospital occurring only at the behest of the patient’s general practitioner (GP). Criteria for referral were not discussed and feedback after referral was...

Eyecare education in times of COVID-19

4 February 2021 | | EYE - General
A collaboration between the German Committee for the Prevention of Blindness (DKVB), Rukwa regional government in Tanzania and the University of St Andrews Global Health Team successfully delivered a hybrid teaching programme for ophthalmic nurses in Sumbawanga, south west Tanzania,...