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Launch of the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service in UHWI Jamaica

1 June 2016 | Lizette Mowatt, Peter Mitchell, Tunde Peto, Marcia Zondervan | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous

At 2.55pm on Wednesday 16 March 2016 the first patient was screened and given her results in the new nurse-led Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (DRS) Clinic at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Kingston, Jamaica. This was the result...

Optical coherence tomography – reinventing the eye examination

1 October 2016 | Reena Chopra, Pearse A Keane (Prof) | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, Imaging

It has been 25 years since Huang et al. presented the first optical coherence tomography (OCT) images in Science [1]. With vast improvements in OCT technology over the years, it is now possible to acquire high-resolution cross-sectional images of the...

Can 3D facial imaging improve patient management in disfiguring eye disease?

1 August 2015 | Ade Deane-Pratt, Daniel Erza | Imaging, Oculoplastics

Fight for Sight is the leading UK charity funder of eye research. Since the 2013 Sight Loss and Vision Priority Setting Partnership we have encouraged our researchers to work on priorities jointly identified by people affected by sight loss and...

Intravitreal injections delivered by ophthalmic clinical nurse specialists

1 June 2015 | Rita McLauchlan, D Armstrong, Konstantinos Balaskas, Sajjad Mahmood | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous

Intravitreal injections of the anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) agent ranibizumab, for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) was approved by National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) in 2008 [1]. The Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (MREH),...

The Eye Health Network – an ‘optometry-first’ approach to eye care

1 April 2014 | Stephen McPherson, John Olson | Cornea / External Eye Disease

Historically, in NHS Grampian, ophthalmology and optometry worked separately, with even the process of optometry referral to hospital occurring only at the behest of the patient’s general practitioner (GP). Criteria for referral were not discussed and feedback after referral was...

Transferring imaging from primary to secondary care (part 2)

5 October 2020 | David Haider | 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...

Interview with Clinical Director of OpenEyes

1 April 2015 | David Haider | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous

Professor James Morgan is an Ophthalmic Consultant at Cardiff Hospital and also the clinical director of the OpenEyes programme. Given the national push for electronic records we felt hearing directly from James would be of interest. The interview was conducted...

How to nearly (but not quite) get into ST1 ophthalmology training – some reflections

1 February 2022 | Lutfi Al-Nufoury | Ophthalmology

Ophthalmology is often considered to be an elite, highly competitive specialty, with little room for failure. Candidates and trainees tend to cultivate a certain urbane and confident style, and the bottleneck at ST1 can feel rather intense. The majority of...

Immunoglobulin G4-related ophthalmic disease – what is it? (Part 2)

3 April 2023 | Li Yen Goh

Part 2: Clinical presentation and treatment (see part 1 here) Introduction IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is understood to have a vast clinicopathological spectrum; nearly every organ has had reported involvement. Similarly, IgG4-related ophthalmic disease (IgG4-ROD) is known to affect nearly every...

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