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Moorfields Eye Charity appoints Dr Louise Wood CBE as new chair

3 June 2024 | Louise Wood, Moorfields, Industry, infrastructure, charity, hospital, grants, Appointments
Dr Louise Wood CBE has been appointed as Moorfields Eye Charity’s new chair and will succeed Mervyn Walker when he steps down from the role in July 2024.

College of Optometrists responds to Government’s reform plans for elective care

23 January 2025 | nhs, optometry, royal college, politics, government, labour party, Keir Starmer
The College of Optometrists welcomes the Government’s commitment to ensure patients receive the care they need at the right time and the right place. Currently, 600,000 people are on NHS waiting lists to begin treatment for ophthalmology in England, making...

Disability charity releases new film to improve eyecare for people with learning disabilities

3 July 2025 | news, charity, SeeAbility, media, eyecare
Disability charity SeeAbility has launched a new short film for Learning Disability Week to raise awareness of how people with learning disability can get support with eyecare. The charity works to remove the barriers to eye care for people with...

Newmedica calls for transparency over glaucoma waiting lists and more collaboration with community optometrists

4 July 2025 | glaucoma, waiting list, news, industry, Newmedica
Ophthalmology provider Newmedica is calling for greater transparency by all providers over glaucoma waiting lists to tackle a ‘postcode lottery’ facing patients. Coinciding with Glaucoma Awareness Week (30 June – 6 July), Newmedica, which provides NHS and private ophthalmology services,...

Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning elects Dr Gillian Rudduck MCOptom as Chair

14 August 2025 | appointments, optometry, CCEHC
Dr Gillian Rudduck MCOptom, President of The College of Optometrists, has been elected as the new chair of the Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning (CCEHC) following a vote by the members of the Council. The CCEHC is an independent...

Global eyecare charity Orbis welcomes new international president and CEO

16 January 2026 | recruitment, charity, international
NGO leader Kathleen Sherwin joins Orbis International to meet the growing global demand for eyecare. Global eye care NGO Orbis International is pleased to welcome Kathleen Sherwin as the organisation’s new President and CEO.Kathleen brings more than 25 years of...

Good news: new study links moderate wine consumption to lower risk of cataract surgery

31 March 2021
An observational study published today in Ophthalmology (the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology) indicates that low to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a lower risk of requiring surgery for cataracts, although the nature of the study means it does not definitively prove a direct causal effect.

A refractive surprise after vitrectomy and capsulectomy

1 February 2016 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Figure 1: Right posterior capsule small aperture. We report a case of a pseudophakic patient who underwent vitrectomy and posterior capsulectomy. In spite of good visual acuity and absence of floaters, he was unhappy with the visual outcome. Case report...

Acute retinal necrosis presumably caused by Epstein-Barr virus infection

1 October 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
Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is an uncommon, but serious and potentially blinding condition. ARN is characterised by panuveitis, occlusive vasculopathy and progressive peripheral necrotising retinitis. The diagnosis is clinical but confirmation is sought via aqueous and vitreous sampling. Varicella zoster...

An unusual presentation of sarcoidosis

1 October 2021 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
*Equally contributing co-first authors. Case report A 45-year-old man presented to his local optometrist with a three-week history of severe intermittent left eye pain with associated blurred vision and tenderness around his left temple. Two days prior, he developed weakness...

Making a life-changing difference in Bangladesh

1 October 2016 | | 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
It has always been a desire of mine to volunteer in a ‘vision aid’ type project abroad, but due to various factors I had not been able to fulfil this desire until very recently. A gentleman called Mizanur Rahman (founder...

The Global Vision Database

1 December 2015 | | EYE - General
The overall goal of the Global Vision Database (GVD) [1] is to develop and deploy new and improved evidence on the prevalence of blindness and vision impairment (VI) globally. It is a repository which allows us to assess the causes...