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Volunteers urged to consider VCHP in 2025

24 January 2025 | Volunteering, charity, VCHP, Homeless
Chair of Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP) Elaine Styles is urging the profession to get behind the charity in 2025 and put a few hours aside each month for volunteering. “We have ambitious plans for the growth of our...

Thank you, Baljean Dhillon. Welcome onboard, Peter Cackett.

3 April 2024 |
As our Co-editor of over 11 years, Baljean Dhillon, passes the torch, Peter Cackett steps up to take on the role.

Highlights from The RCOphth Annual Congress 2023

25 May 2023 | | RCOphth2023, live updates, birmingham, icc
Check in here for live updates and media from the RCOphth Annual Congress 2023 being held in Birmingham's ICC between 22-25 May.

Corporate M&A pace gathers momentum

1 October 2019 | | EYE - General
Intensifying franchise competition, maturing product development pipelines and looming loss of exclusivity spur renewed merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the ophthalmics sector. Rod McNeil reviews recent deals and related strategic developments. AbbVie to acquire Allergan in $63 billion mega-combination,...

AOP champions member voices in new benefits video

7 November 2023 | AOP, member benefits, optometry, optometrists
The Association of Optometrists (AOP) produces a new member focused video to showcase the support the AOP provides through members’ careers.

Hidden eyelid laceration following blunt trauma

3 April 2024 | | EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
A paediatric case report of a hidden eyelid laceration following blunt trauma. Blunt injury to the eyelid can result in a multitude of issues, such as damage to the eyelid margin, lacrimal system and surrounding orbit [1]. These can often...

Establishing an intra-arterial chemotherapy service for children with retinoblastoma in Nigeria for the first time

3 April 2023 | | EYE - General
This is the first in a series of three articles (see Part 2 here) about strengthening eye health services in Nigeria through collaboration with the LINKS and Networks run at the International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene...

Crisis Specs collection day brings happy faces all round

29 January 2024 | charity, crisis specs, volunteer, christmas, campaign, optometry, opticians, optical
Volunteers took delight in dispensing to the Crisis at Christmas guests who returned this week to collect their glasses, with frames kindly donated by Specsavers and lenses and glazing by EssilorLuxottica.

What's trending Feb/Mar 2023

3 February 2023 | | EYE - General
A round-up of the eye related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #nativity #needleeye Happy New Year! Let’s kick things off with a holiday-related story. Birmingham-based micro-engraver Graham Short engraved by hand...

Mucormycosis: In conversation with Dr Deepak Haldipur and Dr Aditya Moorthy

15 July 2021 | | EYE - Orbit, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - General
COVID-19 has ravaged the world in the past 18 months. The second wave in many countries was deadlier than the first. Mucormycosis, infamously labelled ‘the black fungus’ has affected some countries, such as India, in epidemic proportions within this COVID...

Independent opticians shortlisted for the 2023 SightCare Awards

8 November 2023 | optical, Opticians, awards, SightCare, shortlist
28 deserving independent optical practices have been shortlisted in their chosen categories of the 2023 SightCare Independent Optician Awards celebrating the independent spirit.

New Bolton office space for UK’s largest provider of NHS cataract surgery, as company celebrates 15th year

5 October 2023 | spamedica, infrastructure, industry, mark logan, Cataract surgery
Bolton North East MP Mark Logan visited SpaMedica’s new building, The View, which accommodates 180 company employees, including 40 recruited in the last year.