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Seeing beyond the eyes: CET roadshow launches

A nationwide CET roadshow was launched May 14 to raise awareness of the difficulties faced by patients who are diagnosed with irreversible sight loss. Optician reports

Entrepreneur Dan Williams may be severely sight impaired, but he is totally focused on improving the skills of the UK’s optometrists and dispensing opticians to help the two million or so patients living with sight loss, a number that is expected to double over the next 30 years.

With the support of the Thomas Pocklington Trust and DOCET, Dan has teamed up with dispensing opticians Jayshree Vasani and Peter Black to deliver ‘Seeing beyond the eyes’, a six-point CET event comprising two discussion workshops, one ‘an introduction to visual impairment’, the other looking at ‘saving sight and supporting sight loss’.

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