Back to the future for Specsavers clinical conference

Specsavers’ 21st annual clinical conference was focused firmly on the future of optometry and what this might look like, as well as providing the multiple core clinical skills and decision-making workshops and peer discussions it has become renowned for.

As ever, the event attracted a strong line-up of clinical experts, including keynote speaker Professor Nathan Efron, from Australia’s Queensland University of Technology.

Specsavers co-founder Doug Perkins opened the day alongside the group’s global director of professional services, Professor Harrison Weisinger, who delivered a blunt message that – with NHS funding for optometry services under intense scrutiny, and diagnostic technology developing at an amazing rate – optometrists must adapt ‘to avoid extinction’.