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Haag-Streit UK to move away from NHS Supply Chain

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...

Haag-Streit UK announces appointment of Thomas Lenzen as new CEO

Haag-Streit UK is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Lenzen as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Haag-Streit Group. Thomas Lenzen. With more than two decades of international leadership experience in the med tech industry, Thomas Lenzen...

TowardPi Brings Next-Generation OCT/A to the UK

TowardPi, a fast-growing leader in ophthalmic imaging, has entered the UK market with its advanced swept-source OCT (SS-OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA) systems. Distributed exclusively by Mainline Instruments, TowardPi is already well-established in Asia and is recognised for pioneering the...

Heidelberg Engineering Welcomes Nick Capewell to the Clinical Sales Team

We’re delighted to welcome Nick Capewell to the clinical sales team at Heidelberg Engineering. Nick Capewell. Nick joins us after more than 10 years at University Hospitals Birmingham, where he trained and worked as an Ophthalmic Science Practitioner. Most recently,...

Artificial intelligence and oculomics: Improving global health

The application of artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular deep learning, to high-resolution ocular imaging has led to many new discoveries, enabling the prediction of multiple different systemic diseases from ocular biomarkers. This emerging field is known as ‘oculomics’ [1]....

ANZGS Congress 2026

"As Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Society I am pleased to invite you to the 2026 ANZGS Congress which will be held in Sydney from 13 – 15 February 2026. The 2025 ANZGS Congress was held in...

Canadian centre experience with ocular cystinosis cases

Ocular cystinosis (OC) is an uncommon recessive genetic disease occurring in about one case per 100–200,000 live births. Patients have accumulation of cystine crystals within tissues. Ocular symptoms include photophobia, blepharospasm, foreign body sensation, retinopathy and visual impairment. Crystals have...

Surgitrac confirms 2026 events so far

Surgitrac Instruments is delighted to announce the first confirmed meetings for our 2026 events calendar, where our team will once again be out on the road meeting ophthalmic professionals across the UK. Our Clinical Specialists will be representing Surgitrac at...

Heidelberg Engineering joins the Collaborative Community on Ophthalmic Innovation (CCOI) through EssilorLuxottica’s Vision Architect membership

Heidelberg Engineering announced that it is joining the Collaborative Community on Ophthalmic Innovation (CCOI) as part of its parent company EssilorLuxottica’s Vision Architect membership – CCOI’s highest level of industry participation. CCOI is a public–private forum that convenes patients, clinicians,...

Surgitrac Instruments to Exhibit at UKISCRS Cornea & Cataract Day

Surgitrac Instruments is pleased to announce its participation in the United Kingdom & Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS) Cornea & Cataract Day 2026, taking place on 16 March in Edinburgh. The event brings together leading ophthalmic professionals...

Ocular sequalae of spinal muscular atrophy

The authors present a retrospective single-centre cohort study of patients with spinal muscular atrophy – a neurodegenerative disorder presenting between infancy and early adulthood. Forty-eight patients were included in total, with roughly equal numbers of types 1, 2 and 3...

Seeing the Funny Side: Taking on the Edinburgh Fringe with Sight Loss

Comedian Jake Donaldson is partially blind, or partially sighted, depending on your outlook on life, but what’s it really like to be a visually impaired comedian?