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Optical practices to stop providing routine sight tests

24 March 2020
The following is a joint statement from the Optometric Fees Negotiating Committee (OFNC), Optometry Scotland, Optometry Wales and Optometry Northern Ireland.

Optometrists in Scotland secure 6% uplift for NHS eye care

22 September 2023 | AOP, NHS, eyecare services, infrastructure
AOP welcomes increase in fees paid to optometry practices for NHS eye examinations.

BCLA webinar will look at medical uses for contact lenses

27 October 2023 | BCLA, Webinar, medical lenses, education
A BCLA webinar will review the various indications for medical use of contact lenses and how different lens modalities work.

Developing community eye care: the evolution of Wales’ eye care services

1 April 2020 | | Optometry
In the third in our series about community eye care in the home nations, David O’Sullivan explains how Wales has developed its community eye care services. Since the devolution of healthcare to Wales on 1 July 1999 [1], significant changes...

Crisis at Christmas Opticians celebrate 20-year partnership

19 January 2024 | anniversary, charity, christmas, homeless, volunteer
The London Crisis at Christmas Opticians and Eyecare Service, which is run as a partnership between Crisis, the national charity for people experiencing homelessness and Vision Care for Homeless People, celebrated its 20th year in December, with the service growing from one initial clinic to nine in London.

Latest NHS plan to modernise primary care misses an opportunity

25 August 2023 | digitalisation, NHS, eyecare, AOP, modernise
Government announces drive to digitise GP phonelines and offer greater options in patient access to care in dentistry and pharmacy, but does not capitalise on opportunities to improve patient experiences closer to home or address IT connectivity issues holding back optometry services.

Marsha de Cordova MP champions the role of optometrists during practice visit

9 February 2024 | eyecare services, battersea, london, labour, optometry, AOP
Battersea MP joined constituents in a High Street optometry practice to discuss the importance of primary eye care services “commissioned equitably”.

Effect of the COVID-19 Urgent Eyecare Service on patient referrals to general practitioners and Hospital Eye Service

28 April 2023 | | COVID-19, Emergency Ophthalmology, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
The COVID-19 Urgent Eyecare Services (CUES) was developed to relieve the demands of hospital ophthalmology, aiming to allow patients to have remote consultations and be managed by community optometric practice. This was because access to Hospital Eye Service (HES) Ophthalmic...

AOP calls for ‘bold thinking’ in response to DHSC request for new minor and urgent eyecare service

19 November 2023 | ICB, optometry, LOCSU, CCHEC, Adam Sampson
The development of a standard specification for ICBs is welcome but ambition for a national approach ‘should not be sacrificed’.

New Ophthalmic Nurse Triage Course launched

21 September 2021
A new online Ophthalmic Nurse Triage Course has been developed by Stanley Keys, an experienced hospital optometrist based in Inverness and developer of Optometry Evolution (an educational website for eye-care professionals.)

How to be a better optometrist – a personal view

5 February 2020 | | Optometry
Our optometry editor shares her personal observations of what makes the best optometrist. Some years ago in Glasgow, I gave a presentation with this same title, ‘How to be a better optometrist’. I was the optometry programme director for NHS...

BCLA announces industry specialist as new chair

3 October 2023 | BCLA, Dave Webley, BCLA Clear, Appointments, Industry
An optometrist with more than 20 years’ experience of working in the eyecare industry has been unveiled as the new chair of the BCLA.