Bill Harvey: My Lucky Number’s 1
Understanding risk is very complicated. It is made more complicated if there is overlap and influence between many different risk factors
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The end of excessive testing?
Moneo writes: Closing time for excessive testing
One of the things that I always remember from my training at university was ...
Simon Jones: Which? way
Simon Jones: Which? way
The annual Best and Worst Opticians report from consumer website, Which?, ...
A clinic full of cynics?
Bill Harvey: A clinic full of cynics?
From January 2022, Continuing Education and Training (CET) will be no more.
That’s not my problem, is it?
That’s not my problem? Or is it?
Waterhaul founder and CEO Harry Dennis says we all have a role to play in the ...
Learn from Covid-19 challenge
Mentoris writes: Learn from Covid-19 challenge
During lockdown, many business owners decided they would at last take heed of ...
Viewpoint: Designer diary
Viewpoint: Diary of a spectacle designer
Tom Davies does his best to focus on the positives in a month that has been ...
Simon Jones: Lasting legacies
Simon Jones: Lasting legacies
The past few weeks have seen UK Optics finally getting on board the strange and ...
Bill Harvey: Train, train
Bill Harvey: Train, train
Some weeks ago, I mentioned how the pandemic was having a major impact upon ...
Bill Harvey: Future world
Bill Harvey: Future world
The general positive trend in infection rates this week deserves, I thought, an otherwise Covid-free comment
View from: BCLA
View from: BCLA
Water exposure during contact lens wear has long been associated with potentially serious conditions such as microbial keratitis
Moneo writes: Making up for lost time
Making up for lost time
As things stand it is still not possible to carry out routine NHS sight testing
Simon Jones: Cliff edge
Simon Jones: Cliff edge
We have just seen an area around Leicester city centre placed in an extended period of lockdown measures
Bill Harvey: The rhythm of life
Bill Harvey: Rhythm of life
Over the next few weeks, it is expected that most facilities, including cinemas, galleries and museums, will reopen.
Mentoris writes: Recessionary mindset
Recessionary mindset
We’re bombarded with advice, statistics, facts and fiction on how best to take our businesses forward...
Simon Jones: Don’t @ me
Simon Jones: Don’t @ me
This week’s GOC clarification will hopefully negate some of the sector’s ill feeling towards its regulators, associations and retailers
Bill Harvey: Shake your money maker
Shake your money maker
Sadly, over the course of the pandemic, there has been little progress in public recognition of primary eye care services
Viewpoint: Diary of a spectacle designer
Viewpoint: Designer diary
Tom Davies muses on the joys of reopening for business
View from: ABDO
View from: ABDO
ABDO has set up a working group to consider the impact of the pandemic
Simon Jones: Paging Marcus Rashford
Paging Marcus Rashford
Two weeks ago, I expressed concern that the return to wider practice could go the way of the dental profession
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