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William’s Marathon Mission: Running for Sofie and Sight Scotland

7 May 2024 | Fundraising, charity, Sight Scotland, UK, retinal dystrophy, retina, children
William Oviatt is running the Edinburgh Marathon to raise money for Sight Scotland to say thank you for all the help and support the charity gave to his family when his daughter, Sofie, was diagnosed with retinal dystrophy.

Eye News Symposium 2020

5 December 2019 |
Eye News Co-editor and Chair, Professor Baljean Dhillon from the University of Edinburgh, explains the 'AI and New Technology in Ophthalmology Eye News Symposium and Workshop' on Monday 20 January 2020 - Glasgow Hilton, UK is a 'must-attend' event. For...

Fundraisers take on 4 Kiltwalks for sight loss

8 June 2023 | RNIB, Fundraising, charity, Shona Black, Daryl Stewart
Two fundraisers with visual impairment took on an 18-mile sponsored walk in tartan on Sunday, June 4th.

Surgitrac Instruments to Exhibit at UKISCRS Cornea & Cataract Day

29 January 2026 | Company Profiles, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries
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...

Eye News to host educational day focused on AI and new technology

29 October 2019
We’re delighted to announce that we will be hosting a symposium again next year as part of Eyecare 2020.

A pituitary tumour from 1927

1 April 2019 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
The author shares a clinical case from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary’s archives. It is not often in the course of a clinical career that one gets the opportunity to review a patient who had been treated by a pioneer neurosurgeon some...

The International Congress of Ophthalmology (ICO): a history

1 February 2018 | | EYE - General
Readers of Eye News will notice in the Events section that the World Congress of Ophthalmology (WOC) is scheduled to take place in Barcelona in June 2018. This is in fact the renamed International Congress of Ophthalmology (ICO) and now...

Sight Scotland report calls for improved accessibility in Scottish venues

17 July 2024 | sight scotland, veterans, charity, Scottish, report, Edinburgh, festival, Fringe
Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans have today launched a new accessible venues report, "Enhancing Accessibility: Venues and Visual Impairment," ahead of Scotland's summer festivals and Fringe in the capital. The report reveals significant gaps in accessibility and calls for comprehensive changes to ensure equal access for all.

Conference Report: Scottish Ophthalmological Club Spring 2025 Meeting

5 June 2025 | | News, Report, Conferences, Meetings, UK, Scotland, SOC
The biannual Scottish Ophthalmological Club (SOC) meeting took place on 21 February 2025 in the rolling hills of Stirling at the Stirling Court Hotel. Kindly hosted by NHS Forth Valley, the free paper session commenced after a cordial opening message...

NHS Lothian donates ophthalmic equipment to Ukraine

24 July 2023 | NHS, NHS Lothian, Aid, Ophthalmology, Charity, International, Peter Cackett, Edinburgh, Ukraine, Kyiv
Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, an NHS Lothian doctor has set his sights on distributing donations to his Eastern European counterparts.

WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

23 January 2024 | Sight Scotland, Charity, Campaign, Awareness, sight impairment
Charity’s new campaign aims to dispel negative perceptions of people living with sight loss.