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Glaucoma UK’s National Eye Health Week campaign highlights the significance of timely information in safeguarding eyesight

18 September 2023 | Glaucoma UK, National Eye Health Week, Joanne Creighton, campaign, learning, eyesight
Glaucoma UK’s campaign for National Eye Health Week 2023, which will run from 18-24 September, focuses on delivering essential bitesize information about glaucoma that can be read or viewed in under one minute.
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Multimodal Retinal Imaging

1 December 2015 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Understanding of rapidly advancing retinal imaging techniques is important as they have changed the management of retinal conditions considerably. Interpretation of these tests is a vital skill in the armamentarium of every practising ophthalmologist. The book is directed at general...
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Prevalence of strabismus 10 years after infantile cataract surgery

3 April 2023 | | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus
The authors present a secondary analysis of the longitudinal data on ocular alignment from the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study (IATS). The details of the trial are published elsewhere. This paper focuses on the ocular alignment assessment at age 10.5 years,...
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Subperiosteal abscess management in adolescents and adults

1 September 2023 | | EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Orbit
This is a retrospective study looking at the clinical and treatment profiles of patients with orbital subperiosteal abscess (SPA) in an adolescent and adult population. SPA is rarer in this age group compared to a paediatric population (less than nine-years-old)...

A paradigm shift in the way we approach cataract surgery

1 February 2015 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Cataract surgery is the most common elective surgical procedure in the UK [1], with in the region of 350,000 cases being conducted each year. With an ageing population, this figure will only continue to rise over time. Cataract surgery is...

Animal antics for children with vision impairment

20 March 2024 | RNIB, charity, children, young people, zoo, community, events, Shape and Share
Nine families with children with vision impairment got up to some animal antics at a mini zoo in Perth, thanks to the charity RNIB.

Ophthalmology for Medical Students DVD

1 October 2015 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - General
Medical students spend far too little time in clinical ophthalmology, barely a week in a whole five year course. A week usually taken up by learning very basic facts about the eye and about the specialty, which means that any...

RCOphth Annual Congress - Day 3

25 May 2022 |
Follow live updates and key highlights from Day 3 of the RCOphth Annual Congress.

Community Eyecare Services in Northern Ireland: putting the patient at the centre, improving outcomes and maximising system resource

1 August 2017 | | EYE - General
The UK has four healthcare systems; Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each has autonomous legislature that develops health policy, while the UK government directly runs England’s NHS. Like the other nations, Northern Ireland is continually challenged to meet the needs...

Improving eye care for children with learning difficulties: a view from SeeAbility

1 August 2019 | | EYE - General
Marek P Karas from sightloss charity SeeAbility examines why children with a learning disability do not access the eye care they need and asks how the system needs to change. Children with a learning disability are 28 times more likely...

Caring for adults with an ocular tumour

1 December 2015 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Detection If you screen for an intraocular tumour, dilate the pupil. If the patient is driving, use phenylephrine only. If the patient declines, document this in the casenotes. Don’t forget to look for sentinel vessels, which would indicate a ciliary...

Informed consent in ophthalmology care in the UK: A critical component of patient‑centred practice

2 April 2025 | | EYE - General
Informed consent is a cornerstone of ethical and legal practice in healthcare, particularly in fields like ophthalmology where specialised interventions can have significant implications for a patient’s vision and quality of life. In the UK, informed consent is not merely...