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Professor Lyndon Jones and Karen Walsh consider safe contact lens practice as clinics move out of lock-down (C 76118, one distance learning CET point suitable for optometrists, dispensing opticians, contact lens opticians and therapeutic optometrists)
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To complement her recent series on systemic drugs, Dr Doina Gherghel looks at the adverse effects of ophthalmic drugs. This first article focuses on those drugs used in eye care practice for assessment and diagnosis (C76095, one distance learning CET point suitable for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)
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Ian Davies introduces a second interactive CET exercise based on his recent series on communication and the challenges of the post-lockdown period. Now the focus is on children and those with learning or sensory impairment (C76099, one interactive CET point suitable for optometrists and dispensing opticians)
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Contact lens discomfort

Closing Date: 21/08/2020

Simone Stad considers the possible causes of contact lens discomfort – will it be the contact lens or a challenging ocular surface? (C76074, one distance learning CET point suitable for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)
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Covid: Keeping you updated 18

In a week where the dissemination of facts rather than the facts themselves have again dominated headlines, Bill Harvey focuses on a newly confirmed ...

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Dry eye or contact lens?

As part of our series, developed with Alcon, Dr Tony Gibson presents a case of dry eye in a contact lens wearer who mistakenly believed her symptoms to be solely due to the contact lenses

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Eyewear More eyewear

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A powerful movement

Danish eyewear brand MonkeyGlasses opened its first practice in Copenhagen in November 2019. The company’s CEO and designer Mai-britt Seaton tells ...

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A clean break

Yiannis Kotoulas considers the importance of in-practice cleaning and disinfection procedures as patients return to practice

Management More management

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The only way is up

Simon Jones looks at some of the ways practices can give patients’ spectacle and sunglass frames a new lease of life

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Inspecs acquires Norville Group

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Optrafair 20/20 cancelled

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Optician Awards: December date announced

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College issues local lockdown guidance

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Bill Harvey: Lucky Number 1

​Understanding risk is very complicated. It is made more complicated if there is overlap and influence between many different risk factors

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The end of excessive testing?

One of the things that I always remember from my training at university was being taught the methodology behind a full eye examination

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