Diary of a spectacle designer
Tom Davies explains how coronavirus brought UK operations to a standstill
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Letters: Myopia control lenses
Letters: Myopia control spectacle lenses
One appreciates this is an ongoing key topic for practitioners and one we ...
'Net clicks and chill
Simon Jones: 'Net clicks and chill
Online optical retail is likely to have another major player in the very near ...
Bill Harvey: Refuse/Resist
Bill Harvey: Refuse/Resist
Over the weekend, the College of Optometrists published online some very useful ...
Letters: Essilor responds
Letters: Essilor responds
The recent reporting in Chris Bennett’s interview with Rodenstock could be ...
Making apprenticeships work
Actus writes: Practicalities of making apprenticeships work
With over 12,000 signing the petition urging the GOC not to allow optometry ...
A levelled playing field?
Simon Jones: A levelled playing field?
Two OCT-related stories caught my eyes and ears this week and it got me ...
Appetite for construction
Bill Harvey: Appetite for construction
Now, I don’t wish to go all hippy on you, but I have been thinking about the ...
The case for apprenticeships
Moneo writes: The compelling case for optometry apprenticeships
The end of last year and the start of 2020 saw the issue of apprenticeships for ...
View From: LOCSU
View From: LOCSU
We have been spending a lot of time recently dissecting the NHS long term plan, exploring how the optical sector should best engage with stakeholders to increase its profile
Bill Harvey: Dream machine
Bill Harvey: Dream machine
This publication is one of several that has been keen to promote the development of dry eye management over recent years
Chris Bennett: Day of judgement draws near
Opinion: Judgement approaches
In less than a week judging for the Optician Awards will have been completed and the finalists notified
Diary of a spectacle designer
Diary of a spectacle designer
Tom Davies tips us off to the fashion trends likely to make a splash in 2020
Bill Harvey: A Two-Pronged Crown
Bill Harvey: Two-Pronged Crown
Some of us were surprised by an apparent standing back by the College of Optometrists when the fuss about proposals for an apprenticeship for optometry were first made public.
The View from the High Street
The View from the High Street
Firstly, many thanks to Judy Lea for her excellent contribution to this column since June 2017. I just hope I can live up to her high standards. I wish her all her best with her ongoing roles as College assessor, diabetic CAVA assessor, WOPEC lead assessor, and head of enhanced optical services and - if that wasn’t enough - as an optometrist director of Specsavers Longton.
Simon Jones: Support networks
Support networks
Reading one of Optician’s CET features on patients with eye injury-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) got me thinking about mental health provision within optics, and I’m of the opinion that it remains something of a blind spot.
Bill Harvey: The final curtain
Bill Harvey: The final curtain
I was originally going to simply say… no comment
Letters: Optometry apprenticeships: Clinical deskilling?
Clinical deskilling
To be a good optometrist you need dedication – with completion of the university degree
Letters: Optometry apprenticeships: College responds to OPG letter
Optometry apprenticeship
The letter (from the Ophthalmic Practitioners Group – Optician, In Focus 06/12/19)
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