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Bill Harvey: Orphans of the storm

This week, once I have driven to a castle some 30 miles from home to test my eyesight is adequate, I have to take my son, Spike, to pick up his things from his university

Cummings and goings

Simon Jones: Cummings and goings

It’s fitting that the intended theme for this column, disruption in optics, ...

The Nation's saving grace

Bill Harvey: The Nation's saving grace

We all know that the average age in the UK has risen over recent decades

Delegation... art or science?

Mentoris writes: Delegation... art or science?

When I was a young trainee dispensing optician, I always had a desire to get ...

Simon Jones: Waiting game

Research carried out by dentist chain Portman Dental Care has highlighted ...

Bill Harvey: Smell the glove

This week was the bicentenary of the birth of Florence Nightingale

Simon Jones: Long road ahead

Hopes that the sector might soon be ‘back at it’ to a greater extent have been ...

Bill Harvey: Down in the sewer

As we go to press this week, the trial of the smartphone tracing app is about ...

Simon Jones: Testing times

One has to assume that it has been the spare time on everyone’s hands during ...

Bill Harvey: In one ear

As I write this, news continues to flood in thick and fast

Control the controllable

Viewpoint: Control the controllable

It has been said many times recently that these are extraordinary times we are ...

Simon Jones: A Covid catalyst

As we enter another month of government-enforced lockdown, there can’t be many people who haven’t had a catch up or even a pub quiz, on one of the many video calling platforms.

View from: BCLA

If coronavirus has taught us one thing it’s that in times of crisis, we all pull together like never before.

Bill Harvey: Magic bus

Last year I was lucky enough to attend a symposium at which the World Health Organisation launched their Report on vision

Mentoris writes: The right tools for the job

The right tools for the job

At the weekend I was up on my ladder cleaning out the guttering

View from the High Street: We can make a difference

We can make a difference

Satvinder Soomal urges you, in these difficult times, to focus on the reasons you entered the profession

Simon Jones: Life after lockdown

Life after lockdown

It’s a perplexing situation where 600 people dying each day is seen as positive news

Social Distancing is key to reducing infection

Covid: Keeping you updated 3

Bill Harvey gives an overview of developments in clinical practice and understanding of SARS-CoV-2

Bill Harvey: In the flesh

By the time you read this, the next review of the lockdown should have taken place

Simon Jones: Mob rule

I generally like to keep my leader columns focused on a single issue, but there’s a lot going on at the moment

Bill Harvey: Orange crush

This week we start a regular Covid-19 column.

Simon Jones: Negotiating table

News that GOS sight test fees have been frozen is bitterly disappointing for the sector

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