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The College of Optometrists awards its first Optometric Practice Educator (OptPE) affix to qualifying supervisors at the College’s AGM 2025

9 May 2025 | optometry, optometrist, training, education, professional development
The College of Optometrists has awarded the first Optometric Practice Educator (OptPE) affix, it’s first-ever educational affix, to the inaugural group of optometrists who have completed the College’s enhanced training for supervisors. The OptPE affix is designed to recognise the...
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Impact of virtual reality on parental understanding of visual impairment

5 October 2026 | | EYE - Paediatrics
The authors carried out a qualitative study using virtual reality (VR) headsets to give parents of children with visual impairment a point of view experience of the visual defect their child has. They found parents understood the difficulties and adaptations...

Cataract surgery training in the independent sector

3 June 2024 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
I am now most of the way through my ST3 year working in Plymouth, within the Peninsula Deanery. Before the start of the year, I was approached by one of my consultants who asked if I would like to carry...
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Suitability of online materials for strabismus

1 October 2025 | | EYE - Strabismus
In this study, the authors aimed to evaluate and compare online materials about strabismus using expanded metrics including readability, complexity and suitability. They highlight areas of improvement for better counselling of patients on the internet. Ten top web pages were...

Blind and partially sighted actors star in charity films aimed at getting people to think #BeforeYouAsk

1 November 2023 | RNIB, charity, short films, media, #BeforeYouAsk, Vivienne Francis
Leading sight loss charity the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has released a series of humorous, yet challenging, #BeforeYouAsk short films as part of its See the Person, Not the Sight Loss campaign which aims to raise awareness of and dispel misconceptions about sight loss.

Here comes the fear

2 June 2025 | | EYE - General
“At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse” The quote above is the Fat Man’s third law from the book The House of God by Samuel Shem, previously described in the ‘Doctor by the sea’...

Martial arts mum fights for inclusive employment

12 January 2026 | charity, news, patient stories
A visually impaired mum in West Lothian is calling for more accessible and inclusive employment for people with sight loss. Amanda Whitfield (35) recently won medals alongside her five-year-old daughter in mixed martial arts, after taking part in local family...

Envision Glasses – A different take on a sight impairment wearable (part 2)

1 February 2022 | | EYE - General
This is the second part of the review of the Envision Glasses (see Part 1 here), a wearable piece of assistive technology. Features From the main menu four feature modes can be chosen: Read, Identify, Find and Call. The Glasses...

Eye-Opening-Education: What you were not taught in training

8 December 2025
Eye-Opening-Education OPHTHALMOLOGY: What you were not taught in training

AI breakthrough brings geographic atrophy treatment a step closer

20 September 2021
A team led by Dr Konstantinos Balaskas at Moorfields Eye Hospital Reading Centre has developed a fully automated, deep-learning model (algorithm) that can detect and quantify geographic atrophy using standard optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans.

The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) achieves carbon neutrality

22 April 2022
The Association’s emissions have been reduced using a blend of offsets from a Gold Standard wind project and a Verra CCB4 forestry project to mix biodiversity protection and restoration with fuel switching to renewable energy.

Preventing blindness from diabetes: planning a programme of service development and research across Malawi

5 April 2022 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
In sub-Saharan Africa 19.4 million people have diabetes; this is projected to rise to 28.6 million by 2030 [1]. Sight loss from diabetes devastates the lives of working people, affecting the financial stability of the families and communities who depend...