Litigation and the practitioner 3
Bill Harvey and Dr Nizar Hirji discuss the last in our series of interactive CET exercises centred around litigation and the eye care practitioner (C-61613)
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CET feedback - low vision
Low vision interactive 2 – support services
Bill Harvey discusses your responses to our recent interactive CET exercise ...
Happy birthday RNIB
Happy birthday RNIB
As the RNIB celebrates an impressive 150th birthday, Bill Harvey catches up ...
Refract – react – refer
Refract – react – refer: What more can be done for Lucy?
In the last of his features offering an overview of the ever-evolving provision ...
Intensive care
Intensive care
Since its recent introduction to the UK as a treatment for dry eye disease, ...
Case study: Headache
Case study: Headache and heartache
In the last of his series of interesting cases presenting to community ...
CET reforms
In focus: GOC opts to slow down CET reforms
A standard CET cycle will run from 2019-21 after the General Optical Council ...
Vision for success
Vision for success
How clear is the link between sports performance and perfect vision? David ...
Blind Veterans UK
Blind Veterans UK: Seeing where the money goes
Optician’s readers have raised tens of thousands of pounds for Blind Veterans ...
Seven ways to make low vision services pay
Make low vision services pay
Daniel Williams presents a business argument for providing low vision services against the backdrop of ever-impacting cuts to local services for the visually impaired
The return of chloroquine
The return of chloroquine
The resurgence in the prescribing of the potentially maculotoxic drug hydroxychloroquine has led the Royal College of Ophthalmologists to produce a new screening guideline of which, Bill Harvey argues, we should be aware
Optician Awards 2019: Winners take all
Optician Awards 2019
The race to find the 2019 Optician Award winners has started with entries welcome through www.opticianawards.co.uk. This year’s awards feature two brand new categories in a line up spanning the entire professions and business wrapped up in a fun and funky 1980s theme
From the front room: Catering for all ages at home
Catering for all ages at home
Sinitha Ratnaselvam tells us what it is like testing and dispensing in people’s homes
Optical connections: Elements of colour
Elements of colour
David Baker considers how colour blindness proved no impediment to the discovery of new atomic elements, such as indium, through spectroscopy
In focus: How good is your driving vision?
How good is your driving visio
With road conditions worsening at this time of year, some chilling statistics have been released about the number of drivers forgetting or choosing not to wear their vision aids behind the wheel. Zoe Wickens reports
Seven ways: A feast for the eyes
A feast for the eyes
Nutritionist Sophie Bertrand, working with Optegra, describes seven foods which can offer benefits for ocular health
Cracking the colour code
Cracking the colour code
Glorious full colour vision is a privilege enjoyed by more than just humans. New research shows the Harris’s hawk sees in colour, which brings great benefits. David Wilson reports
Case study: Facial nerve palsy
Case study: Facial nerve palsy
Unilateral facial palsy may present in patients who are fearful of a stroke. Kirit Patel describes two cases where such fear proved unfounded
A case for orthokeratology
A case for orthokeratology
In the last of his series of interesting cases illustrating the extended role of the eye care practitioner in the primary community, Andy Britton describes his use of orthokeratology in myopia management
Low vision: Access all areas
Low vision: Access all areas
Daniel Williams shows how new technologies are increasingly important to those with a visual impairment, and how a more traditional helper, in the form of a guide dog, is still hard to beat
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