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Haag-Streit UK to move away from NHS Supply Chain

28 May 2025 | Contracts & Distributors, Company Profiles
Haag-Streit UK has announced that they will no longer be working with NHS Supply Chain. To provide a more flexible, transparent procurement process, Haag-Streit UK will be supplying their products direct to NHS trusts and ophthalmic healthcare providers from 1st...
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Review of non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy

1 October 2016 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology | Neuroprotection, optic nerve ischemia, optic nerve vasculature, primate models, rodent models
This article reviews the risk factors, clinical presentation and therapies that have been investigated for non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (NAAION). Additionally, it provides an update from recent rodent and primate models, offering a new insight into the pathophysiology of...

The restorative prescription: The case for carbon-negative healthcare

1 June 2026 | | sustainability
The Hippocratic Oath begins with a simple, profound directive: ‘First, do no harm.’ Yet, for decades, the global healthcare sector has been locked in a quiet paradox. While doctors work tirelessly to treat illnesses, heat exhaustion and vector-borne diseases, the...
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Understanding optic nerve head pericytes and glaucoma

4 December 2025 | | EYE - Glaucoma
The authors provide a comprehensive review of the current understanding of pericytes in the optic nerve head (ONH). Key points include: (1) Pericytes are contractile mural cells that play crucial roles in regulating blood flow, maintaining the blood-brain / blood-retinal...

Sustainability in ophthalmology and healthcare: An overview

2 April 2025 | | EYE - General
Finally, even staunch sceptics are coming around to recognising that climate change is real and that we should do something about it. But how proximal the threat is and at what pace change has to happen is not universally agreed...

Cataract surgery and the carbon footprint: Lessons in sustainability from Aravind Eye Hospitals, India

5 February 2026 | | international, services
Climate change is among the most urgent global health threats. In 2016, environmental factors caused 13.7 million deaths worldwide, underscoring the link between planetary and human health [1]. Healthcare itself is not blameless. Globally, the sector accounts for 4.4% of...

An environmentally friendly eye service

1 August 2025 | | climate change, sustainability news, net zero, greenhouse gases, environment
A single cataract procedure in the UK has been estimated to have a carbon footprint equivalent to driving a typical non-electric car for 310 miles. Surprisingly, very few centres around the world have worked out the environmental cost of cataract...

An Inconvenient Truth: Pete’s hidden curriculum Part 4

5 June 2023 | | EYE - General
“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” The above is a quote attributed to Mark Twain from the 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which follows Al...

Conference Report: RCOphth 2025

4 August 2025 | | Events, Meetings, Report, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, UK
This year’s Royal College of Ophthalmologists Annual Congress in Liverpool brought together eyecare professionals from across the country and beyond for four days of thought-provoking content, collaborative discussion and exciting glimpses into the future of ophthalmology. The opening day was...

Ophthalmology in the Middle East: Reflections from two electives in Jordan and the UAE

3 October 2024 | | EYE - General
In the summer of 2021, I was fortunate enough to embark on two electives in ophthalmology at the Shami Eye Centre in Amman, Jordan, and Moorfields Eye Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). These eye hospitals serve distinct populations,...

European optical industry leaders gather in London

22 July 2025 | optometry, optician, optical, industry news
Keeping a close eye on new products entering the market, European optical industry leaders, as EUROM 1 Optical Industries, have gathered in Pall Mall, London. They discussed new standards and the collective approach also brought insightful state-of-the-market reports from each...

Parents urged to get children checked for dry eye disease

20 April 2026 | dry eye, public health
Dry eye disease (DED) has become a feature of teenage and young adult life, rather than a condition which traditionally troubled only the middle-aged. The problem is largely unrecognised, says a leading figure in children’s vision and eyecare, Prof James...