Technology in community practice - part 4

Niall O’Kane is a therapeutic optometrist with a private practice in Strood, Kent. Optician readers may already be familiar with his activities as he has been a major advocate in developing services to support the resource-constrained hospital eye service in areas such as AMD and macular oedema management. His practice was one of the first optometry centres to incorporate the Heidelberg Spectralis OCT and this has proved instrumental in his ability to liaise with ophthalmology. His enthusiasm in establishing optometry support services has been widely reported and led to his winning and award a few years back for his excellence in ophthalmology.