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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.

Belfast Eye Conference 2024

22 June 2024 -23 June 2024
Join us at the Belfast Eye Conference 2024, a fully online and free two-day event aimed at medical, optometry, and healthcare students and professionals. Hear clinical overviews from specialist practitioners, uncover the latest in vision science and ophthalmology research, and showcase your own work. Organized by Queens University of Belfast, be part of a global community and seize this opportunity to network, learn, and contribute to the field of ophthalmology.

College of Optometrists recognises outstanding contributions to the profession with Life and Honorary Fellowships

14 November 2023 | optometry, fellowships, awards, achievements, career, academic, college
The College of Optometrists has awarded three new Life Fellowships and two new Honorary Fellowships to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the profession or to the College.

Optical practices to continue to provide urgent and essential care

25 March 2020 | COVID-19
The UK Government has now published further guidance clarifying that opticians are exempt from the general requirement for retail businesses and premises to close. Optical practices may therefore continue to provide urgent and essential eye care to the extent that they can, including remote care, while managing COVID-19 risk to keep patients, staff and the public as safe as possible.

An optometrist’s view of the Emergency Eye Day

1 October 2017 | | Optometry, Ophthalmology
Liverpool is steeped in history, from its mercantile history, home to Cunard and the White Star line, to the Merseybeat and Derek Hatton. Not to be outdone at their annual meeting in the city, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists made...

ARU opens Sensory Sciences Centre in Cambridge

1 February 2024 | university, infrastructure, Anglia Ruskin, clinic, education, trainees, courses, study, optometry, optometrist
New £1.9m investment in equipment, teaching and research space for students.

RNIB introduces ground-breaking framework for Low Vision care

1 March 2024 | optometry, low vision, patient care, practice, guidelines
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is launching the development of a landmark set of guidelines and framework to help low vision clinics provide best practice care, which it will unveil today at a launch event at its state-of-the-art Low Vision Centre in the charity’s headquarters in London.

Paediatric spectacle dispensing: more than a frame and lenses

1 April 2017 | | Optometry
It’s incredibly rewarding to fit a child’s first pair of spectacles and see their face light up; looking around to see the wider world for the first time. Sometimes it is so obvious that even the most reluctant parent will...

First online education day for locum optometrists

19 June 2023 | optometry, AOP, locum education event
The AOP’s online locum day will take place on Sunday 25 June, 09:30-15:45.

Transferring imaging from primary to secondary care (part 2)

5 October 2020 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry
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...

Bridging the gap – Supporting our patients across the primary / secondary care divide

1 June 2017 | Optometry
Providing the best care for patients is surely a fundamental goal for all healthcare professionals. When waiting-times are long and getting longer, clinics are full, colleagues are off with stress-related illness and patients are complaining, is it possible to still...

Axial length measurement advice to be shared in webinar

24 January 2024
The first BCLA webinar of 2024 will look at using axial length measurement as a guide for decision making around myopia management.