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Leadership and management in optometry: why is it important?

1 April 2018 | | 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,...

Assaying acetylcholine receptor antibodies in the diagnosis of ocular myasthenia

1 December 2022 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology | Ocular myasthenia, anti-acetyl choline receptor antibody, generalised myasthenia
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease that leads to impaired neuromuscular transmission. Solely ocular manifestations of MG (OMG) occur in 15-50% of cases, most frequently in the form of fluctuating ptosis and diplopia. Most cases of OMG convert later...

2025 SightCare Awards launched

15 July 2024 | events, diary, awards, competition, opticians, optometrist, optometry
The 2025 SightCare Independent Optician Awards celebrating the independent spirit opened for applications in July. The SightCare Awards recognise the best independent opticians from the length and breadth of the UK.

A complicated case of cytomegalovirus viremia: “What would you do doctor?”

1 February 2016 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Mrs W walked gracefully into my urgent care clinic. It was another busy session and I hoped she did not have anything serious going on which might slow the clinic further. She was an elegant 72-year-old lady who seemed like...

Ciliary body granuloma masquerading as a melanoma

3 February 2023 | | EYE - General
Introduction Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous inflammatory condition which predominantly affects the pulmonary system and intrathoracic lymph nodes, followed by ocular involvement [1]. We present an interesting patient who developed acute anterior uveitis and subsequent ciliary body granuloma clinically mimicking...

Patients with low vision benefit from optical sector seeing ‘beyond the eyes’

26 February 2019
Patients with low vision are benefitting from an initiative developed by Visualise Training and Consultancy and funded by Thomas Pocklington Trust. Seeing Beyond the Eyes has released its impact report which highlights a huge increase in the number of optical professionals who will now refer patients with low vision to vital support services – up from only 9% to an impressive 96%.

Inaugural IP education session hailed a hit

14 February 2024 | prescribers, optometry, Conference, events, Keyur Patel
A pioneering session has brought together a group of independent prescribers to create content ‘for practitioners by practitioners’ for use in real world scenarios.

The Irlen Experience

1 November 2014 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
My father used to say that humanity is divided into those that see the world through a moral framework and recognise their place within it, and Tories. When a concerned mother came to the paediatric clinic bearing literature from the...

Topcon & OcuPlan: Importance of early AMD diagnosis and how to communicate with patients free interactive CPD session evening event (Derby)

16 May 2023
Join us for an interactive CPD session on the importance of early AMD diagnosis and how to communicate with patients. We are teaming up with Topcon to run 5 evening events over May, June and July. The two-part sessions will...

Topcon & OcuPlan: Importance of early AMD diagnosis and how to communicate with patients free interactive CPD session evening event (Sutton Coldfield)

6 June 2023
Join us for an interactive CPD session on the importance of early AMD diagnosis and how to communicate with patients. We are teaming up with Topcon to run 5 evening events over May, June and July. The two-part sessions will...

Topcon & OcuPlan: Importance of early AMD diagnosis and how to communicate with patients free interactive CPD session evening event (Worcestershire)

29 June 2023
Join us for an interactive CPD session on the importance of early AMD diagnosis and how to communicate with patients. We are teaming up with Topcon to run 5 evening events over May, June and July. The two-part sessions will...

Topcon & OcuPlan: Importance of early AMD diagnosis and how to communicate with patients free interactive CPD session evening event (Leicestershire)

3 July 2023
Join us for an interactive CPD session on the importance of early AMD diagnosis and how to communicate with patients. We are teaming up with Topcon to run 5 evening events over May, June and July. The two-part sessions will...