Dr Douglas Clarkson describes the evolution and characteristics of glass and plastic photochromic lens materials. (C104720, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Following on from last week’s case study of a patient exhibiting saponification, Sarah Farrant explores the link between this common symptom, lid health and the bacterial load present on and around the ocular surface (C104752, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)

Bill Harvey presents a VRICS exercise based around the first two parts in the recent CPD series about age-related macular degeneration (C104641, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Bill Harvey offers describes the advantages of binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy for viewing the retina and shows how modern headset indirect ophthalmoscopes have many benefits when viewing the peripheral retina and for examining specific patient groups, with or without dilation (C104644, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

In the second in a four-part series looking at age-related macular degeneration, Dr Rohit Narayan and Bill Harvey discuss the clinical assessment and diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration (C104534, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Dr Douglas Clarkson describes the science underlying climate change and explains the wide impact it is having on eye health and the prevalence of specific eye diseases around the world (C104439, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Khin Yadana Tun reviews the published scientific evidence regarding the efficacy of nutritional supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids in treating dry eye disease and suggests what eye care practitioners should advise their patients. This is an edited version of the 2022 City University/Optician Best Dissertation prize-winner. (C104332, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)

The sixth in a series of articles summarising the key findings of the BCLA CLEAR publication, a major review of the published evidence relating to all aspects of contact lens practice, Dr Neema Ghorbani Mojarrad and Sophie Coverdale offer an overview of the BCLA CLEAR section relating to orthokeratology. (C104271, suitable for one distance learning CPD point for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)

Neil Retallic and Bill Harvey introduce a new interactive CPD exercise based upon the BCLA CLEAR publication focusing on contact lens optics, as featured in last month’s Optician Contact Lens Monthly (C104243, suitable for logging as one interactive CPD point for optometrists, dispensing opticians and contact lens opticians)

With Disability History Month taking place in the UK between November 16 and December 16, 2022, with the aims of raising awareness and celebrating the achievements of people living with a disability, Tina Arbon Black and Peter Black take the opportunity to consider the range of dispensing challenges patients with special needs can present (C104286, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)