Future of Optics: The shape of lenses to come
Professor Mo Jalie presents a few thoughts on spectacle lens development in the next 20 years
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Future: In the consulting room
Future of Optics: In the consulting room
A time travelling Nick Rumney writes from the year 2040 on the consulting room ...
Future: Refractive surgery
Future of Optics: Refractive surgery
Shehzad Naroo introduces Optician’s Future of Optics coverage, which revisits ...
Myopic management: case study
Case reviews in myopic management 1
Sarah Farrant follows up her review of the new MYAH instrument, published in ...
Changing the trajectory
Changing the trajectory
Mark Halling explains to Andrew McClean how CooperVision’s Brilliant Futures ...
Domiciliary: Home safety
Domiciliary: Home safety
Mike Hale finds out how the provision of domiciliary eye care has been affected ...
Optegra: Filling the void
Optegra: Filling the void
Robert Morris tells Andrew McClean how Optegra has adapted its practises during ...
ESCRS virtual 2020 2
Conference report 2: ESCRS virtual 2020
In the second report from Dr Irene Siso-Fuertes and Dr Clare O’Donnell of the ...
SCONe: Unlocking the retina
SCONe: Unlocking the retina
Dr Emma Pead introduces the Scottish Collaborative Optometry-Ophthalmology ...
Conference report: ESCRS virtual 2020
ESCRS virtual 2020
In the first of two reports, Dr Irene Siso-Fuertes and Dr Clare O’Donnell review days one and two of the ESCRS 2020 virtual conference
In Focus: Myopia control progress
Myopia control progress
Andrew McClean looks at the results of VTI’s five-year contact lens study and how CooperVision’s new programme aims to support the management of myopia in practices
Case studies: Dry eye in a pandemic
Dry eye in a pandemic
Bill Harvey introduces the first in a series of case studies from readers reflecting the sorts of patient presentations that are increasingly being dealt with by eye care professionals since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This week we look at two cases sent in by contact lens optician Beth Ralph
Eye care in the community: Blunt trauma injury to the eye
Blunt trauma injury to the eye
In anticipation of a new series of challenging cases from eye care practice, community-based optometrist Kirit Patel describes traumatic injury and its assessment and management during the current Covid-19 pandemic
Face masks can lead to dry eye problems
Mask-associated dry eye
Yiannis Kotoulas investigates advice for practitioners on the new phenomenon of mask-associated dry eye
In Focus: Changing methods of care
Changing methods of care
A statement on the use of technology and equipment during Covid-19 has been issued by the GOC. Andrew McClean takes a look at what registrants should consider
Barrier breaking IT
Barrier breaking IT
A new IT platform rolled out by Primary Eye Services could break down some of the barriers between primary care optical practices and hospital eye services. Andrew McClean reports
CET Feedback: Communication interactive 1
CET Feedback: Communication 1
Ian Davies comments on the interactive exercise concerning post-lockdown communication with patients
OCT Casebook: Starting out
OCT Casebook: Starting out
Having discussed use of the OCT at a routine appointment, Bill Harvey continues our new series developed with Heidelberg Engineering with a look at some results from a healthy young adult
Letter from India
Letter from India
Regular contributor to Optician Dr Narendra Kumar describes the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic upon eye care in India
Preparing children for visits
Preparing children for visits
Clinical adviser at the College of Optometrists, Daniel Hardiman-McCartney, tells Optician how practitioners should accommodate for children during the pandemic
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