Surgery shadow scheme launched

Optical Express has given optometrists the opportunity to gain insight into refractive surgery after the multiple launched a shadow programme.

The initiative will be trialled for three months and each shadowing experience will run over half or full day at Optical Express sites across the UK.

Stephen Hannan, clinical services director at Optical Express, said: ‘Our aim is to give optometrists who are not currently part of the Optical Express team a full and informed insight into the clinical experience and role available to optometrists and other health professionals at Optical Express.

‘It is an opportunity to firstly see our own optometrists undertaking pre and post-operative consultations and secondly to work alongside our world-class ophthalmic surgeons and the full multi-disciplinary teams in theatre, who have access to the most advanced surgical technology.’