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AOP welcomes Labour plan on primary care optometry

25 January 2024 | government, politics, health policy, optometry, optometrist, backlog, outpatient
In a keynote health policy speech at the Institute for Government (IfG) annual conference, Karin Smyth MP committed to working with primary care optometry to reduce hospital waiting times.

Medisoft Q4 Lunch and Learn Webinar: Community Portals

8 December 2023
@ 13:00 - 14:00

Getting one’s eye in

4 February 2021 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry, COVID-19
Lisette Bijma, Sister in the Eye Emergency Department at John Radcliffe Hospital, explains how COVID-19 provided a ‘baptism by fire’ and enabled fundamental and positive changes to the running of the department. Five years ago, I arrived in the UK,...

Self refracting – child’s play?

1 February 2018 | | Cataract and Refractive | China, children, conventional refraction, conventional spectacles, myopia, eady-made spectacles, rural refractionist, self-refraction, visual function
Uncorrected refractive error was the leading cause of vision impairment in the world in 2010. Although refractive error may be safely and effectively corrected with spectacles, lack of well-trained refractionists in settings of limited resources may be a major barrier....

The Worshipful Company Of Spectacle Makers closes 2023 with 9 new liverymen and 1 new court assistant

12 January 2024 | awards, organisation, healthcare professional, allied professions, livery, collaboration
The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers brought a successful 2023 to a close with the admission of 9 new Liverymen at its December Court Lunch.

Catch up with the Heidelberg Engineering Academy educational webinars

16 July 2020
Since the beginning of April 2020, the Heidelberg Engineering Academy has hosted eight educational webinars covering a wide range of topics including the impact of COVID-19 on ophthalmology services, using OCT to evaluate patients for retinal pathologies and glaucoma, and the latest ophthalmic research studies.

SpaMedica celebrates 15 years of industry innovation and unrivalled patient care

12 July 2023 | SpaMedica, anniversary, Industry
Launched in 2008, the UK’s largest provider of NHS cataract surgery has helped thousands of patients and invested in world-class training.

How effective is nurse-led telephone preassessment for cataract surgery?

25 July 2023 | | Cataract and Refractive, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
Cataract surgery is the most frequently performed surgical procedure in the UK [1]. The demand for cataract surgery is projected to increase with ageing population, and the recent pandemic has further contributed to the extended waiting times in the UK....

Learnings and trends in the management of open-angle and angle-closure glaucoma

1 August 2017 | | Glaucoma
To be truly disruptive, newer technologies need to offer a quality of life benefit over medication to a broad population of glaucoma sufferers. Evidence and converging trends in medical and surgical management of glaucoma were explored in counterpoint discussions and...

CHEC Announces Collaboration with Award-winning Eyecare Company

4 October 2022
Leading ophthalmologist Nikolina Budimlija to host CPD event in early October. Collaboration with family run Scope Eyecare reflects CHEC’s continued expansion of services and expertise.

Optegra: Free CPD Webinar on Myopia

23 March 2022
@ 18:45 PM - 20:00 PM GMT

North West Neuro-Ophthalmology Day

12 July 2023
@9:00 - 17:00