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WATCH EPISODE 9: Beyond 2020 with the Andean Medical Mission

21 February 2024 | AMM, CHARITY, INTERNATIONAL, WORKING ABROAD, DAVE GOLDSMITH, CATARACT SURGERY, RURAL AREAS

Welcome to the 9th episode of Beyond 2020, the series that looks at strategies to eliminate avoidable blindness in countries with developing eyecare services and shares ideas and solutions to common difficulties in working abroad. In this video, Dave Goldsmith...

Providing primary eyecare services during a global pandemic: the new normal

7 December 2020 | Janet Pooley | EYE - General

It would be fair to say that 2020 hasn’t quite turned out to be the year that anyone predicted. Living with a global pandemic has become our reality and we are having to get used to many aspects of our...

What's trending Apr/May 2023

3 April 2023 | Stephanie Chiu | EYE - General

A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #Cyborgeye #flashlighteye #prostheticeye #BrianStanleyeye Brian Stanley is a California-based engineer, who lost his eye to retinoblastoma when he was six-years-old. A...

Sustainability in eyecare: Climate action in eyecare

4 August 2021 | Mitasha Yu, Imran Khan | EYE - General

Climate change will cause disruption to critical eyecare services and increases in rates of eye disease around the world. The International Agency for Prevention of Blindness has recommended 10 key areas of action on how the eyecare sector can address...

Optoversity Challenge draws 12 universities together

27 February 2025 | charity, Vision Care for Homeless People, VCHP, fundraising, trainees, medical school, students, opportunities, competition

Out of the Box Optic’s Optoversity Challenge 2025 has brought 95 students from 12 UK universities together to take part in the exciting competition. The annual event – now in its ninth year – is a major fundraiser for Vision...

Effect of the COVID-19 Urgent Eyecare Service on patient referrals to general practitioners and Hospital Eye Service

28 April 2023 | Hafsa Amjad, Nicholas Rumney | EYE - General

The COVID-19 Urgent Eyecare Services (CUES) was developed to relieve the demands of hospital ophthalmology, aiming to allow patients to have remote consultations and be managed by community optometric practice. This was because access to Hospital Eye Service (HES) Ophthalmic...

Community Eyecare Services in Northern Ireland: putting the patient at the centre, improving outcomes and maximising system resource

1 August 2017 | Raymond Curran | EYE - General

The UK has four healthcare systems; Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each has autonomous legislature that develops health policy, while the UK government directly runs England’s NHS. Like the other nations, Northern Ireland is continually challenged to meet the needs...

Greater awareness of children’s vision care is urged by the profession

9 April 2025 | paediatric, children, teenagers, patient stories, survey, Questionnaire, optometry, needs

Greater attention needs to be given to children’s vision, believes the profession, as a recent survey by Mumsnet reveals that visits to the optometrist are lower down the agenda than dental visits. It found that 9% of parents saw no...

Meeting the needs of older patients in optics

1 February 2019 | Fiona Anderson | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Fiona Anderson discusses the important role of community-based eyecare practitioners in meeting the visual needs of ageing patients. It has been well documented that today we live for longer. Statistics show in 1997, around one in every six people (15.9%)...

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