Thea conference report: Lessons from Wales

With the NHS under strain and an ageing population meaning this is only going in one direction, the optometric profession is well placed to help ensure ophthalmology is seeing the patients most at need. This was one message of Thea Pharmaceuticals’ Eye Health Conference, a one-day event held at the Royal College of Physicians in early October.

Lids

Teifi James, consultant ophthalmic surgeon gave the keynote lecture on ‘Blinking eyelids’ which drew heavily on case studies of patients attending his clinic, with conditions including thyroid eye disease, where male patients could be mistaken for being aggressive, exposure keratitis and lid margin conditions.