Jeremy Beesley and Professor David B Elliott describe the results from their major study of the causes of rechecks in UK eye care practice and suggest ways to avoid them. (C102913, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians).

In the second interactive exercise linked to the long-running CPD series on ophthalmic dispensing, Tina Arbon Black, Peter Black and Bill Harvey introduce an exercise aimed at encouraging critical analysis of the evidence base (C102858, suitable for one interactive CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Bill Harvey offers an overview of the assessment of the pupils and the implications of any findings as part of a routine eye examination (C102854, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Evidence-based practice has become a cornerstone of medical and healthcare disciplines in recent years as the natural authority of doctors and other professionals has been challenged by regulators, patients and the courts. Here Tina Arbon Black and Peter Black discuss how evidence-based practice applies to dispensing opticians and optometrists engaged in ophthalmic dispensing practice (C102847, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians).

The third 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 Claire McDonnell offers an overview of the BCLA CLEAR section relating to the effect of contact lenses on the eye. (C102744 suitable for one distance learning CPD point for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)

With a nod to their own many years of contact lens wearing experience, Professor Lyndon Jones, Karen Walsh and Anna Sulley discuss the key lifestyle factors and clinical considerations most relevant to helping patients maintain successful CL wear over multiple decades (C102830, suitable as one distance learning CPD point for optometrists, dispensing opticians and contact lens opticians)

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)

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.

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)

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)