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A Shared Vision: national clinical director outlines plan for eye care transformation

This session will explore how nationally coordinated eye care can deliver improvements to patient outcomes, what should be the priorities and where responsibility for policy delivery sits across the NHS architecture. Attendees will have the opportunity to both learn more about NHS England’s ongoing work to support improvements to eye care and input into that process.

RCN Ophthalmic Nursing Conference 2024

Brought to you by the RCN Ophthalmic Nursing Forum, this one-day conference will provide a rare opportunity to network with your peers and showcase the latest developments and innovations in clinical practice, research, education and leadership to help you stay ahead in your career.

A guide to utilising your time efficiently to develop clinical and procedural skills as an aspiring ophthalmologist

Ophthalmology often receives limited coverage in the undergraduate medical curriculum, and the availability of foundation programme jobs in this field is also restricted, reducing exposure to this field for aspiring ophthalmologists. Even if you’re not planning to specialise in ophthalmology,...

Orbis marks 100-millionth antibiotic dose in the fight against trachoma in Ethiopia

Orbis and partners mark historic 100-millionth dose of azithromycin antibiotics in the fight to eliminate blinding trachoma in Ethiopia by 2030. This milestone was achieved 20 years after Orbis began leading mass drug administrations.

Improving vision screening access

The purpose of this study was to determine whether providing access to instrument-based screening equipment would increase the total number of high quality age-appropriate vision screenings provided to pre-school aged children. SPOT vision screening was placed in paediatric offices at...

The African Ophthalmology Council: Driving excellence in African eye health

Have you been wondering about how you can impact, or even just understand, the eyecare landscape in Africa from those who experience it daily? Ever wondered about which one body brings all eye health professionals in Africa together, united in...

Psychological approach to treatment of accommodative / convergence anomalies

A case series is presented of affected children, young people and young adults with discussion of a psychological approach to aiding their accommodative problems. The psychological approach involved an information sheet provided at the end of assessment which included explanations...

The adverse effects of COVID-19 on undergraduate ophthalmology education: An opportunity to reform ophthalmology training

The steady erosion of undergraduate ophthalmology teaching, which has been acutely exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis, has led to a lack of basic ophthalmology examining skills and knowledge amongst clinicians of other specialities. Concurrently, there has been a rise in...

Heidelberg Engineering joins the Collaborative Community on Ophthalmic Innovation (CCOI) through EssilorLuxottica’s Vision Architect membership

Heidelberg Engineering announced that it is joining the Collaborative Community on Ophthalmic Innovation (CCOI) as part of its parent company EssilorLuxottica’s Vision Architect membership – CCOI’s highest level of industry participation. CCOI is a public–private forum that convenes patients, clinicians,...

Conference Report: Uveitis-North West: Weaving a vision at the Whitworth Art Gallery

“It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed...

Anti-VEGF agents treatment outcomes in macular telangiectasia

This article is a review of a systematic literature search on Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane Library, from inception to June 2024 for comparative studies on anti-VEGF agents in macular telangiectasia (MacTel). The primary outcome was the change in best-corrected...

Risk of fractures with glaucoma

In this systematic review and meta-analysis, 7 articles were analysed, with 570,694 subjects and a reported total of 45,957 fractures. The study protocol (CRD42024527785) was registered prospectively. PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science were searched from their inception to April...