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Oculogyric crisis with B12 deficiency

1 June 2022 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
An oculogyric crisis (OGC) is a dystonic movement disorder of the eyes which can last from seconds to hours. Although there is no published diagnostic criteria for OGC, typically the onset is acute, and it is characterised by conjugate upward...

Scope Eyecare Announces Winners of Independent Prescriber Bursary Awards 2022

2 August 2022
Three winners announced among 70 applicants.

From novice to overnight on-calls: developing an ophthalmology bootcamp to ease the learning curve for new trainees

4 December 2023 | | EYE - General
Introduction My first ophthalmology on-call was nine years ago and it was a fairly traumatic experience. I was an FY2 in a Welsh district general hospital and I was on my own – at least, that’s how it felt to...

What's trending Feb/Mar 2023

3 February 2023 | | EYE - General
A round-up of the eye related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #nativity #needleeye Happy New Year! Let’s kick things off with a holiday-related story. Birmingham-based micro-engraver Graham Short engraved by hand...

Ambitions for sustainable service recovery amidst an escalating post-COVID backlog

5 April 2022 | | EYE - General
Rod McNeil reviews plans, activity and solutions to better address the post-COVID backlog and bolster sustainable service recovery. Ophthalmology was the busiest outpatient specialty during the three years to March 2020 across the English NHS and again recorded the highest...

Pioneering eye device restores reading vision to blind eyes

3 November 2025 | AMD, geographic atrophy, artificial intelligence, implant, vitrectomy
A pivotal European clinical trial of a new electronic eye implant has seen remarkable results. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed 84% of participants were able to read letters, numbers and words using prosthetic vision...

How to consent patients

1 August 2018 | | EYE - General
I attended a morning seminar at the recent College Congress in Liverpool about how to properly and legally consent a patient for a procedure. There has been a lot of interest in this of late following the Montgomery ruling, in...

Sunflower Scotland delivers aid to Ukraine

8 July 2024 | ukraine, donations, charity, humanitarian, international
Sunflower Scotland has been helping Ukraine since the second week of the war, first as volunteers and later as a registered charity.

Long way up

3 February 2023 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
In the first of a series of guest editorials exploring multiple different Learning Curves, Francis Sanders ruminates on motorcycling and environmental guilt. As an avid motorcyclist, I was naturally drawn to the relatively recent sequel series from Ewan McGregor and...

6.6.2020 – a celebration of international partnerships

5 October 2020 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
The date 6.6.2020 was selected as a significant milestone for celebrating the achievements of the VISION LINKS Programme as part of the global ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’ initiative [1]. This virtual full-day seminar included LINK partners in the...

A missed intraocular telescope – an opportunity to re-focus the evidence

4 February 2021 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
Intraocular telescopes allow magnification of the image so that it would be projected into a larger area of the macula, this makes the central defect caused by dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) smaller. The most common approach is a Galilean...

Conference report: SORD: Student Ophthalmology Review Day 2024

13 December 2024 | | news, events, report, conference
The Student Ophthalmology Review Day (SORD), now in its fifth year, was hosted at the Royal College of Ophthalmology at their esteemed London location, and two identical sessions were run on 11 and 12 December 2024. Designed for medical students...