Bill Harvey: Europe works together

I’ve just returned from an excellent optometry event on the Continent.

The European Academy of Optometry and Optics (EAOO) annual conference ran together with the partner Optometry Conference of Central and South-Eastern Europe and offered three days of excellent lectures and workshops.

The content was noticeably swelled by research papers and posters this year and had a significantly high scientific content. As eye care professions continue to evolve, admittedly at differing rates in member countries, it is good to see this evolution is in an advancing direction.

Even better to see, despite the imminent threat of the UK severing ties with Europe, UK representation at the conference was impressive and there were many familiar faces from both UK academia and clinical practice in evidence.