D&A incentive

Dollond & Aitchison and SeeAbility have developed a training programme to help optometrists give sight tests more effectively to people with learning disabilities.

SeeAbility's eye 2 eye training programme has been launched in Sheffield and Birmingham and is designed to help optometrists communicate with patients who may be unable to use the Snellen chart. D&A is awarding all their optometrists who take the course two CET points.

Research suggests that people with a learning disability are three times more likely to have a significant visual impairment than the rest of the population but they are less likely to have their sight tested.