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Conference Report: UKISOP marks World Sight Day with multidisciplinary webinar: Supporting adults and children with sight loss

10 November 2025 | WSD25, Guide Dogs UK, UKISOP, Events, Charles Bonnet syndrome

To commemorate World Sight Day 2025, the UK & Ireland Society of Ophthalmic Practitioners (UKISOP) hosted a dynamic online learning session titled 'Supporting Adults and Children with Sight Loss' on October 9 2025. The event brought together over sixty professionals...

The International Centre for Eye Health: weaving the global threads together

4 October 2023 | Marcia Zondervan, Hannah Faal, Covadonga Bascaran | EYE - General

The VISION 2020 LINKS & Networks Programme has been writing regular articles in Eye News about its capacity-strengthening activities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for more than a decade. This, the first International Issue, is a landmark for Eye...

Mr Lego shows that visual impairment doesn't have to hold you back

3 September 2026 | charity, patient stories

Stewart Lamb Cromar, from Edinburgh, has achieved a lifelong ambition after Lego turned one of his designs into an official set. It is a goal he has been working towards for more than a decade, and one he feared might...

Is optician led service an answer to ever increasing demand on eye emergency clinics?

1 April 2015 | Ritu Chaturvedi, Nikhil Cascone, Conrad Yuen, Richard Brown | EYE - General

The demand for eye casualty appointments has been steadily increasing in the UK, leading to pressures on the hospital emergency services. The incidence of presentations to eye casualty services has been estimated at 20-30 per 1000 per year [1]. Evidence...

Rare eye diseases: progress continues with authorised orphan medicines and breakthrough technologies

1 October 2018 | Rod McNeil | EYE - General

An update on the development of orphan medicines, recent regulatory treatment approvals for rare eye conditions and advances in retinal prosthetic technologies for blinding diseases. The prevalence of a rare disease is based usually on a range of estimates and...

Innovation update: key advances in eyecare transformation in the last year

1 December 2021 | Vishal Shah, Alexander Chiu, Guy Mole, Melanie Hingorani | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General

Vishal Shah and his co-authors reflect on examples of innovation in eyecare delivery published in the last year and the implications for the future of eyecare services. The “new normal” is an overused phrase to describe extraordinary measures that have...

The implementation of postoperative day 1 vitrectomy telephone follow-up consultations

6 April 2021 | Rubina Rahman, Nosheen Khan | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General

In this pre-COVID-19 study, the authors argue that some follow-up consultations can be done by telephone without compromising patient safety. Thirty years ago, a study by Isernhagen et al. [1] found that 52% of patients required some form of unexpected...

The role of virtual Rb-NET Multidisciplinary Team meetings in the management of children with retinoblastoma in low- and middle-income countries

6 April 2021 | Ido Didi Fabian, Nick Astbury, Elizabeth Dennis Nkanga, Anne Ampaire Musika, Susanna Ajayi, Marcia Zondervan | EYE - Pathology, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - General

A selection of participants in an MDT meeting with Uganda. In 2017 the LINKS Programme developed a new network of LINKS to support and coordinate action against retinoblastoma (Rb) in response to requests from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), called...

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