Conference report: Emergency Eye Day

Liverpool is steeped in history, from its mercantile roots, home to Cunard and the White Star line, to the Merseybeat and Derek Hatton. Not to be outdone, at their annual meeting in the city, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCO) made history with its first day dedicated to Emergency Eyecare. Coming at the end of a four-day meeting and against the backdrop of a change in security risk, it proved to be a really interesting day. The session was the brainchild of the British Emergency Eye Care Society, an ophthalmology-led, multidisciplinary group with emergency eye care as its raison d’etre (www.beecs.co.uk).