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My journey as advanced ophthalmic emergency nurse practitioner

Grace Eni explores her own achievements as an advanced nurse practitioner, emphasising the influential range and significance of this role in ophthalmic care. A pioneering position and job title in the UK and possibly globally, advanced nurse practitioner roles were...

GREG: Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Qualifications – March 2025 cohort application deadline

Gloucestershire Research & Education Group in Partnership with the University of Gloucestershire are pleased to provide both the Cert HE in OCT Capture and the Uni Dip in OCT Interpretation. The deadline for the March 2025 cohort applications is 24th January 2025. These qualifications have been designed to meet the needs of routine operators of OCT equipment and interpreters of OCT scans. For further information visit www.gregcourses.com

Moorfields Education: Biometry study day April 26

This one-day in-person study day has been designed to meet the training needs of nurses, nursing associates, technicians, and anyone with an interest to improve their knowledge and understanding of biometry and its calculation and reading a biometry report. The...

IN FOCUS - Prevention and treatment of blindness worldwide: the story of ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’

The story of blindness and efforts to prevent and treat it cannot be told without going back to the earliest recorded history of blindness. Trachoma was described in ancient Egypt, cataract surgery in India about the fifth century BC and...

RCOphth DEMYSTIFYING STRABIMUS: Ocular Motility Curriculum Study Day

An all day event simplifying strabismus, with practical teaching sessions ("you too can do a cover test"), common clinical and exam scenarios, top tips from expert clinicians and educators in the field. Aimed at trainees, SAS doctors and the general...

Accuracy of clinician vs. radiologic interpretation of the imaging of orbital lesions

This is a retrospective study of 242 patients who underwent surgical orbitomy at University of California Davis Health between 1 January 2000 and 20 May 2019. The preoperative imaging with radiologist’s interpretation, clinical assessment with clinician’s interpretation of imaging, and...

Transferring imaging from primary to secondary care (part 2)

Transferring clinical imaging from high street optometrists to secondary care is an increasingly requested option, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. A wide variety of solutions exist to allow this, each with their own merits and shortcomings. In...

District hospitals key to unlocking Global South surgical conundrum

Patients attending first referral hospitals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) receive surgical care that is just as safe and effective as that provided by higher level referral centres, a new study reveals. Researchers found no significant difference in 30-day...

The future of binocular viewing systems?

I recently had the pleasure to visit Vision Engineering’s headquarters and manufacturing facility in Woking, UK. Vision Engineering have built an international reputation for engineering microscopes that provide 3D visualisation without the use of traditional optical eyepieces. Although the company...

What not to miss in neuro-ophthalmology Part 1

Neuro-ophthalmology is a complex and difficult subspecialty in ophthalmology. It has several connections to neurology, neuro-surgery, rheumatology as well as many other medical specialties. Working in an multidisciplinary team (MDT) environment is key to success in this subspecialty as mistakes...

Macular imagery: observing the visual sensations pre- and post-Jetrea injections

A 63-year-old woman, a professional painter, was diagnosed with vitreomacular traction (VMT) in 2017. She had a history of metamorphopsia, drop in visual acuity (VA) in the left eye (6/6 in the RE; 6/18 in the LE), foveal vitreomacular traction...

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)

IIH is a medical condition where the intracranial pressure (ICP) is raised without an obvious cause. The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is produced in by the choroid plexus in the lateral ventricles and the roof of the third and fourth ventricles,...