Chris Bennett: Holistic care means a seachange in the way eye care works

Holistic approaches to eyecare, patient-centric practise and life-time care are the kinds of buzzwords that reverberate around optical conferences and symposia.

If patients are managed, monitored and treated in the context of their wider well-being with lifestyle and previous history well known to the practitioner. The reality of retail optics is that many people surf from offer to offer, or simply move too often to visit the same practice, with little continuity of care. Clearly many factors are at play but this week Ross Grant provides a good introduction to one factor that is set to dominate the public health debate - obesity.