LOW VISION FEATURES

Low Vision Manual
Joy Myint is impressed by a comprehensive and very practical guide to the world of low vision assessment15 June 2007

Caring for individuals
Domiciliary services are a rarity in the UK, meaning many housebound adults are unable to access the eye care services they need. The Outside Clinic is working hard to change this. Shannon McKenzie reports08 December 2006

From guide dogs to transplant surgery
Emma Sharples reports from another successful Hospital Optometrists Conference08 December 2006

A course in low vision practice: Series overview
Barbara Ryan and Tom Margrain’s 10-part series on low vision practice has now finished. Below are the links to all 10 parts including, where available, links to PDF files.14 July 2006

Integrated low vision services for children
Joanne Walls reports on a recent conference aimed at improving vision services for visually impaired children23 June 2006

Evaluating the quality of life of low vision patients
Anita Morrison-Fokken explains the rationale behind the Focus-QoL quality of life evaluation tool created specifically for use at the Low Vision Centre at Birmingham Focus on Blindness and how it is used on a daily basis in the clinics. She also looks at how it may become a useful outcome measure for high street practices30 September 2005

Local heroes
Not sure what services are available locally? Lance Clark describes a national body that provides information on locally available services for those with visual impairment at a time when such provision is still very variable and erratic17 June 2005

Refracting the visually impaired patient
In the first of four CET articles linked with our series concerning the proposed eye care pathways, Professor Jonathan Jackson and Dr James Wolffsohn describe how best to assess the visually impaired patient with an adapted eye examination (CET module C462)21 January 2005