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International Eyewear: Simplicity and comfort

New Puccini eyewear by International Eyewear are said to convey modest elegance

Commonwealth urged to commit to eye health

Charities urge commonwealth to prioritise school screenings

CooperVision: Expanded parameters

CooperVision expanded the MiSight 1 day range to cover wider CL prescriptions

Call for consultation feedback

FODO bangs the drum for more responses as the GOC's deadline approaches

Lorraine Pascale named Acuvue brand ambassador

J&J Vision made TV chef Lorraine Pascale the Acuvue brand ambassador 2022

Opti returns to mid-January date

Opti will be held two weeks earlier than originally planned

Awards: Shielding his patients

Optician Awards: Shielding his patients

Optom Paul Ratcliffe recognised for making a breath shield for Covid

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Acuitis Opticians opens third practice

Independent opens a third UK branch in York city centre

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Informed consent and the specialist optometrist

Closing Date: 15/07/2022

Informed consent is a legal requirement for any medical treatment and is reinforced by professional guidelines. With the growing use of a number of invasive treatment procedures by specialist optometrists, Andrew Matheson considers the increasing importance of gaining valid informed consent from patients (C102707, suitable for one distance learning CPD point for therapeutic optometrists, optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Cases in point

Closing Date: 18/07/2022

Bill Harvey reminds readers to keep those cases coming and to remember that it is not just the purely clinical cases that are of interest.

CLEAR interactive 2 - Contact lens complications (discussion)

Closing Date: 01/07/2022

Neil Retallic and Pauline Bradford introduce a new interactive CPD exercise based upon the BCLA CLEAR publication, and consider contact lens complications as featured in last month’s Optician Contact Lens Monthly (C102632, suitable for logging as one interactive CPD point for optometrists, dispensing opticians and contact lens opticians)

Fundamentals of ophthalmic dispensing 27: Presbyopia 5 - Presbyopia problem solving

Closing Date: 27/06/2022

Presbyopes, especially those new to a reading addition for the first time, often get a raw deal from their spectacles and suffer visual discomfort and disappointment at far greater rates than their pre-presbyopic peers. Here Peter Black and Tina Arbon Black discuss some common, but perhaps not necessarily obvious, causes for complaint (C102552, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)