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Birmingham Optical Achieves UKAS ISO 9001 Certification

5 August 2025 | Company Profiles, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries
Birmingham Optical, a leading UK provider of optical equipment and services, has been awarded the prestigious UKAS ISO 9001 certification, a globally recognised standard for quality management systems (QMS). This milestone reflects the company’s dedication to excellence, consistency, and customer...

Introducing Glaucoma Wise®: New ‘Beyond the Clinic’ Support for Glaucoma Patients Post Diagnosis

2 October 2025 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
Time pressure means that clinicians have to focus on monitoring eye health and ‘fixing eyes’, limiting their ability to provide the emotional and practical support patients need. Glaucoma Wise is a free online resource that clinicians can direct their patients...

Cura Te Ipsum – Physician, Heal Thyself

1 August 2015 | | 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
I wasn’t on call and my bleep went off. I knew without looking that it was the directorate office. Immediately my heart sank, for these calls were always about bad things. They never called to say “well done Gwyn you’re...

Advances in the understanding, diagnostic and treatment of keratoconus

1 December 2022 | | EYE - General
*Joint first authors Keratoconus is a bilateral and asymmetric eye condition in which the cornea’s structure is affected and thinned, causing a cone-shaped bulge to develop. This results in progressive loss of vision and impairs the ability of the eye...

Traffic Lights

4 December 2024 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Pathology
For this issue’s instalment of The Culture Section, I was privileged to speak to Moorfield’s first prize competition winner Charlotte Zheng. Earlier this year in January, Charlotte wrote a patient reflection poem for the prize competition titled ‘Patient as Teacher...

European optical industry leaders gather in London

22 July 2025 | optometry, optician, optical, industry news
Keeping a close eye on new products entering the market, European optical industry leaders, as EUROM 1 Optical Industries, have gathered in Pall Mall, London. They discussed new standards and the collective approach also brought insightful state-of-the-market reports from each...

Thousands of retired staff return to the NHS

26 October 2023 | NHS, staff, workforce, HCP, Long Term Workforce Plan, Navina Evans, Ruth May, Will Quince
More than a third of nurses who retired two years ago had returned to practice 12 months later, according to new NHS England figures.

BCLA to stage its first in-person Presidential Address since pandemic

11 October 2023 | BCLA, Rakesh Kapoor, President, contact lens
The new President of the BCLA will highlight the “fears and opportunities” in the contact lens industry as part of the first face-to-face address to members in four years.

International Women’s Day 2025: In Conversation With Dr Michelle Le Cheminant

9 March 2025 | international womans day, conversation, Q&A, ophthalmology, gender
Women make up 70% of the global health and social workforce but hold only 25% of leadership roles. In ophthalmology, women represent just 25-30% of ophthalmologists. Research shows that hospitals with increased female surgeons and anesthetists have lower odds of...

Code4Health

1 August 2015 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Like many of the topics covered in this column this subject is not ophthalmic specific. Hopefully it is of sufficient interest to be relevant to this audience. Code4Health is a programme from NHS England that was announced in March 2015...

The clues of the eye – what is medical ophthalmology?

1 February 2022 |
The author looks at the increasingly significant role of medical ophthalmologists and the importance of integrative healthcare. The eye is a remarkable organ, and for decades we have been discovering intimations of pathology existing elsewhere in the body [1] simply...

ST3 Trainee experience of cataract surgery training in high flow settings in the independent sector

5 June 2023 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
As an ST3 trainee, I was provided with the opportunity to complete a surgical training rotation at Newmedica Middlesborough, which involved cataract training on NHS patients undergoing surgery in the independent sector (IS). This reflective account highlights the experience from...