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UKEGS (UK and Éire Glaucoma Society) Conference 2024

9 October 2024 -10 October 2024
Pretty soon it’s going to be the 9th of October, and a quick Wikipedia search will tell you of how this day in history has seen the founding of the Kingdom of Valencia, the initial whispers of the Prague Astronomical...

A glossary

5 October 2020 | | EYE - General
After a week on call grading what feels like 13 billion referrals I decided it might be useful to come up with a glossary that might help other people in some way to decipher the true meaning behind every repetitive...

It’s not always GCA

7 December 2020 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an immune mediated granulomatous inflammatory disease that affects muscular middle or large sized arteries. It is considered as a continuation of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) when the severity of the disease has increased. It is the...

Commonest mistakes during the refraction certificate exam

2 February 2024 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
Ophthalmology specialty trainees are required to pass the refraction certificate exam within the first two years of training. If one passes this exam before entering a training programme, this can add two points to the portfolio during applications. In this...

What's trending Jun/Jul 2020

5 June 2020 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
Here in the UK, we’ve been in lockdown since 23 March 2020, with much of the rest of the world entering degrees of lockdown since February-March 2020. COVID-19 has dominated the headlines and social media, so without further ado, I...

What's trending Aug/Sep 2024

2 August 2024 | | EYE - General
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #GeneralElection #RightToVote It goes without saying that the general election has been dominating the headlines and with it, the challenges many...

Just sign here: the intricacies of consent in the post-Montgomery era

1 February 2018 | EYE - General
The consent process is a vital part of the patient pathway and is far more than just getting the patient to sign on the dotted line. In my work in litigation I often see issues around informed consent resulting in...

The results of the last survey Oct 2019

2 December 2019 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
Another fascinating response which once more highlights the massive variation in practice. I completely acknowledge that ophthalmology is an art as well as a science and therefore there will be variances in practice and there will not be one ‘right’...

The results of the last survey Aug21

4 August 2021 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
We are often referred patients noted to have an optic disc haemorrhage (ODH) without any other features of pathology. How we manage these patients can have a significant impact on our struggling capacity. The significance in glaucoma and, in particular,...

The results of the last survey Oct22

3 October 2022 | | EYE - General
I thank everyone for their time in responding to this edition’s survey questions. The first question relates to an issue I have previously discussed around consent for second eye cataract surgery. I touch on this point again for two reasons....

The results of the last survey Apr25

2 April 2025 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Postoperative endophthalmitis is arguably the worse possible complication of cataract surgery. We are a victim of our own success as the procedure has such an amazing safety profile that when things go wrong patients are bound to feel aggrieved and...

Patients blinded by stem cells! How safe are they really?

1 October 2018 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related news stories and asks which are based on facts and which are ‘fake news’. Headline: Patients blinded by stem cells! How safe are they really? Ever since the successful results following...