Actus writes: Is it the beginning or the end for optometry?

I have always made good use of my daily commute listening to BBC Radio 4. It remains my staple for news, comedy, intelligent debate, and insight into the world of the visually impaired through its excellent programme In Touch.

A couple of morning drive-time Today programme items caught my attention recently. Mid-August Pearse Keane of Moorfields and University College London, (the subject of In Focus, August 24) was grilled by John Humphries about his research into retinal imaging in collaboration with Google’s Deep Mind Health. Using retrospective OCT data Deep Mind has been trained to recognise 53 different retinal conditions with a startling 94% degree of accuracy.