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In conversation with Denize Atan (UK-EGG)

24 May 2022
We spoke to Denize Atan, co-president of the UK Eye Genetics Group, about their upcoming meeting in June, and her recent session entitled ‘Neuro-ophthalmology Nightmares’.

Ambitions for sustainable service recovery amidst an escalating post-COVID backlog

5 April 2022 | | EYE - General
Rod McNeil reviews plans, activity and solutions to better address the post-COVID backlog and bolster sustainable service recovery. Ophthalmology was the busiest outpatient specialty during the three years to March 2020 across the English NHS and again recorded the highest...

Presidency changes hands at the International Opticians Association (IOA)

18 April 2023 | IOA, Opticians
This year saw the baton of the presidency of the International Opticians Association (IOA) handed from Fiona Anderson to Donald Crichton BSc (Hons) FBDO.

College of Optometrists calls for vital community minor and urgent eyecare services to be universally commissioned in England

5 June 2025 | The College of Optometrists, optometrists, England, service delivery, optometry, news
Lack of funding threatens commissioning of urgent care eye services in England. The College of Optometrists calls for vital community minor and urgent eye care services to be universally commissioned in England. As demand for eye care in England continues...

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...

Open source and tele-manufacturing for ophthalmology

1 August 2015 | | EYE - Imaging
Open source or crowd-sourcing and crowd-collaboration are concepts almost always associated with software and public online projects such as Wiki project. Never had I imagined that my team would apply the same principle in ophthalmology. Just less than a month...

Developing community eye care: the GOS package in Scotland

1 December 2018 | | EYE - General
In the second in the series about community eye care in the home nations, Janet Pooley explains how Scotland has developed its services within GOS. The United Kingdom has devolved healthcare; the powers were transferred from Westminster to Scotland and...