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Launch of the Vision and eye screening implementation handbook

6 February 2024 | WHO, VESIH, handbook, eyecare, screening
The WHO Vision and Eye Care Programme has the pleasure to announce the publication of the Vision and eye screening implementation handbook (VESIH).

How do blind and vision impaired people experience loneliness and isolation?

19 April 2024 | society, problems, challenges, blind, community, report, study, research, wellbeing
This week Fight for Sight / Vision Foundation released a report highlighting the acute experiences of loneliness among people who are blind or vision impaired.

Glaucoma UK announces United Kingdom & Eire Glaucoma Society (UKEGS) Research Award 2024

7 May 2024 | research, funding, opportunities, glaucoma, glaucoma uk, charity, applications, award
Glaucoma UK is delighted to announce that this year’s UKEGS Research Award is now open to UKEGS members. The award, funded by Glaucoma UK and UKEGS, offers up to £50,000 for projects aimed at impacting patient care, scientific advancement, or understanding of glaucoma.

Healthcare Science (Ophthalmic Imaging) Degree Apprenticeship for Employers

16 May 2024 | imaging, healthcare scientist, allied, profressions, education, study, opportunities, vacancies
Hear from the team at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and about how degree apprenticeships from University of Gloucestershire have helped their department.

The role of virtual Rb-NET Multidisciplinary Team meetings in the management of children with retinoblastoma in low- and middle-income countries

6 April 2021 | | Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Orbit
A selection of participants in an MDT meeting with Uganda. In 2017 the LINKS Programme developed a new network of LINKS to support and coordinate action against retinoblastoma (Rb) in response to requests from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), called...

XIX State of the Art Refractive & Cataract Surgery

14 June 2019
Have you seen our programme? Here is an overview to whet your appetite The 2019 programme offers education, discussion and debate plus the, always entertaining, Worst Cases Video Symposium. In the Dilemmas in Cataract Surgery session, which opens the programme,...

Managing a patient with ptosis

1 August 2015 | | Oculoplastics, Orbit
A 50-year-old male patient is referred from the Accident & Emergency department with a history of ptosis. How will you manage this patient? Mr Bertie Fernando Clinical management Clinical management starts with a sound clinical history. Current history The history...

Ophthalmology specialty training applications: a costly affair?

23 August 2021 | | Ophthalmology, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
Ophthalmology is one of the most competitive specialties to pursue training in worldwide. In the United Kingdom, the ST1 entry national selection competition ratio for the past few years has ranged between four to five applicants per post [1]. The...

Partially sighted poet focuses on visual impairment and parenthood in new book

20 February 2024 | poetry, Scotland, RNIB, book, Nuala Watt, glasgow, art, creativiy, visual impairment
Glasgow-based poet Nuala Watt (39) aims to show that disabled people “have important things to say” in her latest book of poems, ‘The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish’.

Quiz Oct/Nov 2022

3 October 2022 | | Ophthalmology
History An Afro-Caribbean woman, aged 30, with “scleral tattooing” for cosmetic reasons (subconjunctival dye injection), presented with bilateral upper and lower eyelid oedema for one week, and she also had restricted eye movement and blurry vision in her right eye....

Oct/Nov 2016 Quiz

1 October 2016 | Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, AMD, Emergency Ophthalmology
History A 67-year-old female patient had chronic left canaliculitis becoming painful and more recently complicated by left lower blepharitis. Examination revealed a small fleshy lump on the medial aspect of the left lower eyelid. There was also swelling of the...

Medical Ophthalmological Society (MOSUK) Meeting: 22 March 2023

11 January 2023 |
This year’s meeting takes place on 22 March 2023, and showcases the interdisciplinary breadth of medical ophthalmology.