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Fundus photography in Malawi – setting up a screening programmefor diabetic retinopathy
1 August 2016
| Frederick Burgess, Joseph Msosa, Caroline Styles
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
We present the case of a 53-year-old lady who presented to the diabetes outpatient clinic at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), Lilongwe, Malawi. She was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus six years ago, for which she takes metformin orally. She...
The New Zealand National Eye Centre and the land of the long white cloud
4 October 2023
| Qi Zhe (Henry) Ngoo, Bia Kim, Nazima Ali, Pui Ting Tiffany Ma, Chiya Robert Barrett
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EYE - General
Located southeast of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand (Aotearoa) is home to five million culturally diverse people. Renowned for its lush nature spanning from unexplored forests to active volcanos and snow-capped mountains, New Zealand has become both...
Cancelled eye surgeries could mean permanent sight-loss, warns Fight for Sight
4 June 2020
A survey by eye research charity Fight for Sight has found that people with sight loss fear their sight will further deteriorate during the Covid-19 pandemic, as they struggle to access treatment for their eye conditions.
Diabetes and diabetic retinopathy: Changes in understanding of the disease over the last 25 years and how the UK is helping low-income countries tackle the challenges
1 June 2018
| Marcia Zondervan, Covadonga Bascaran, Frank Sandi, Chloe Cornes, Pippa Williams
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Diabetes – a historical perspective Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease caused by inherited and / or acquired deficiency in production of insulin by the pancreas, or by the ineffectiveness of the insulin produced. Such a deficiency results in...
Leadership and management in optometry: why is it important?
1 April 2018
| Helen Court
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EYE - General
The General Medical Council recognises that leadership and management is essential for every doctor, and provides guidance detailing management and leadership responsibilities [1]. Indeed, management and leadership is part of the core training for all medical trainees. However, to date,...
Eye Capacity: clinical need should drive ophthalmic service provision
1 February 2014
| Rod McNeil
Almost two million people in the UK suffer sight loss, a number forecast to double over coming decades. Major causes of blindness are age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, cataract and uncorrected refractive error. Prevalence of these sight-threatening conditions...
CHEC treats first surgical eye patients at Stockport Exchange
Community healthcare provider restores sight for local residents in partnership with the NHS.Moorfields Education: Implementing a non-medical intravitreal injection service (Nov 23)
17 November 2023
This course is for clinicians working in an ophthalmic or medical retina setting, focusing on the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusion and diabetic oedema.
Wrong intraocular lens events – what lessons have we learned?
Data from wrong IOL patient safety incidents (PSIs) submitted to the National Reporting and Learning System (2010–2014) were reviewed and scrutinised by thematic analysis and compared with the historical data collected for groups in 2003-2010, prior to the mandatory checklist...Capacity-building through the COECSA-RCOphth LINK – linking journals in a training and mentorship programme
1 December 2021
| Beth Barnes, Simon Arunga, Josiah Onyango, Marcia Zondervan, Covadonga Bascaran
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EYE - General
The College of Ophthalmology of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa (COECSA) [1] and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) [2] have a long-standing health partnership through the VISION 2020 LINKS Programme [3,4]. The LINK started a new project in 2019...
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.
Could Twitter boost the impact of ophthalmic journal articles?
1 October 2021
| Murad Khan, Karishma Parmar, Sohaib Rufai
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EYE - General
*Equally contributing co-first authors. The authors investigate the link between ‘tweets’ and citations for 155 articles from five key ophthalmology journals. Social media’s impact on our lives has been significant, allowing easy discussion of topics worldwide. An increasing number of...
