Sosena Tang reviews the mechanisms behind accommodation and how it affects refraction, the availability of cycloplegic drugs for optometrists and how and when to use them, and follows up with examples of prescribing from the results of a cycloplegic refraction. (C61461, one distance learning CET point suitable for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

In the first in a three-part series, Colin Davidson explains what to do with a painless red eye and offers top tips for managing red eyes in practice (C61401, suitable for optometrists, dispensing opticians and therapeutic optometrists.

In the first in a three-part series, Colin Davidson explains what to do with a painless red eye and offers top tips for managing red eyes in practice (C61547 suitable for contact lens opticians)

Bill Harvey continues our series on dyes and stains used in eye care with a look at fluorescein and its use in clinical practice (C-61353)

In the first of two articles looking at domiciliary eye care, Catherine Viner discusses the professional, legal and ethical considerations (C61401, one distance learning CET point suitable for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Dr Marian Elder, Professor Sruthi Srinivasan and Professor Lyndon Jones describe a technique that shows promise as a diagnostic technique for dry eye disease. (C61194 one distance learning CET point for optometrists, contact lens opticians and therapeutic optometrists)

In the first of a short series reviewing the basic principles of rigid gas permeable lens fitting, Andy Franklin reviews lens selection for a spherical refraction patient (C-61334, one distance learning CET point for optometrists and contact lens opticians)

Dr Debbie Laughton, Paul Hopkins, and Professor James Wolffsohn explore the requirement for UV protection and the basis and limitations of current spectacle lens standards, as well as providing an overview of commercially available clear spectacle lenses claiming to provide UV protection (C-61098, suitable for one distance learning CET point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

In this three-part CET series, Mr Sheraz Daya reviews the class of phakic intraocular lenses known as implantable contact lenses. Here in part one, he begins with an overview of phakic intraocular lenses, followed by pre-operative planning and surgical techniques for implantable contact lenses (C-61087 suitable for one distance learning CET point for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)

Kelly Weston, Ameenat Lola Solebo, Marina Rayside, Chris Lloyd discuss cataract in the paediatric setting and aspects of modern management (C60956, one distance learning CET point suitable for optometrists and therapeutic optometrists)