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Vision passport to be discussed at OSA June 10 meeting

The Digital Eye Care Alliance (DECA) meeting at the OSA Summer Belfry event on June 10, is opening its doors to non-OSA members who would like to know more about the rapid advances in digital eyecare.

SCOPE supports VCHP

Longstanding VCHP supporters, Scope Eyecare, have stepped up their giving with a £2,000 donation which will help the charity to deliver even more free eye examinations around the country. Daniel Achilles, Medical and Professional Affairs Advisor with Scope Eyecare and...

World-class centre for eye health reaches construction milestone

The new home for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology reached a significant construction milestone today. The completion of the concrete structure as part of the new centre for advancing eye health in St...

New AI in ophthalmology resource goes live

The Royal College of Ophthalmologists has launched a new free resource, sharing and signposting artificial intelligence as medical device (AIaMD) tools for use in ophthalmology. The online AI directory is an evolving catalogue of AIaMD tools used in research or...

The College of Optometrists responds to the GOC’s 2025 Workforce and Perceptions Survey findings

College welcomes the GOC’s thematic review on commercial practices and patient safety. Dr Gillian Rudduck MCOptom, President of The College of Optometrists, said: “As the professional body for optometry, the College is concerned by the findings from the General Optical...

UK Glaucoma Fellows Meeting 2023

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome 09:30 - 09:45 Introduction: Mr. Imran Masood (Participants split into 4 small groups, then cycle around the sessions) 10:00 – 13:00 Session 1 Introducing new technologies to NHS trusts Imran Masood Session 2 Optimising Patient Safety...

EQUALeyes: Illuminating insights into using health data, AI and inclusion

Reflecting the Bloomsbury Festival theme of Human.Kind, and current public conversations on the benefits and potential threats of AI, we bring together leaders in the field of healthcare AI to discuss key issues, with a special focus on eyes.

Moorfields: cornea focus 2025

The 2025 Moorfields cornea focus meeting will take place on 21 November 2025. The topic will be corneal nerves.

Technology for remote working and COVID-19 resources

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered every aspect of how we live, and how healthcare needs to be provided for the welfare of patients and staff. I thought I would try to summarise a few potential technology tools that could be...

Video consultations after COVID-19

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, video consultations (VC) in eye care have been adopted in some regions and hospitals as a way of replacing some face to face ophthalmic consultations. I would like to use this column to...

Treatment for post stroke visual impairment – clinical practice versus literature evidence

The aim of this paper is to compare the treatments reported in a large scale stroke study (Vision in stroke (VIS) Study) against the treatments identified in a full systematic literature review. The purpose was to identify which treatment /...

Switchover study from Botox to Xeomin for facial dystonia

This study carried out in the UK compared the clinical effectiveness and efficiency of switching patients from Botox® injections to Xeomin®. This was carried out in 20 essential blepharospasm, 12 hemifacial spasm and six aberrant facial nerve regeneration patients. Patients...