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Bill Harvey: A head rings out

I have often felt that eye care practitioners play an essential role in the screening of patients with headaches

Centres of holistic care

Moneo writes: Becoming centres of holistic primary care

It seems to be the norm nowadays for optometry practices to ally themselves ...

View from ABDO

The opportunity for advancement and upskilling has never been greater for all ...

View from Locsu

The Royal College of Opthalmologists’ publication of new recommendations for ...

Chance to bridge the gap

Chris Bennett: Chance to bridge the gap

Optometry has waited long and fruitlessly for government to provide a top-down ...

Chaos AD

Bill Harvey: Chaos AD

This was the first year I had been unable to get hold of a Glastonbury ticket ...

Sunglass benefits

Chris Bennett: Sunglass benefits are staring us in the face

Optometry and the eyewear business is in dire need of a cheerleader but who is ...

Days of future past

Bill Harvey: Days of future past

Evidence continues to build regarding the measurement of changes in the eye

Glaucoma in the public eye

Chris Bennett: Glaucoma in the public eye

Glaucoma Awareness Week (June 17-23) had a positive ring about it this year

Have mercy white light

Bill Harvey: Have mercy white light

Two statements found in the journals this week

Diary of a spectacle designer

Nothing is more important than frame design to Tom Davies. Here he reveals the ...

View from GOC: Healthcare regulators

Healthcare regulators

Earlier this week we joined forces with eight other healthcare regulators to produce a joint statement

Chris Bennett: Screens and e-cigarettes – dangers to health?

Screens and e-cigarettes

Public health is increasingly seen as the route to treat and change behaviour by government

Bill Harvey: Something better change

Something better change

So, CCGs think that cataract extraction is of ‘limited clinical value’. We all need to voice our rage at this at every opportunity possible

View from the High Street: Let the record show

Let the record show

Judy Lea enthuses about the value of keeping thorough and accurate notes

View from BABO

Behavioural optometry provides a great opportunity for Independent practices to differentiate themselves

Chris Bennett: CL innovations should lead way to sales

CL innovations lead the way

Contact lens products are experiencing a pretty exciting time at the moment

Bill Harvey: And we moved together...

And we moved together...

As was so eloquently pointed out last year in the OPO, there is no obvious need for increasing numbers of entry-level qualified optometrists

Moneo writes: Full disclosure, not smoke and mirrors

Full disclosure

It’s that time of year again when we start seeing the annual reports from our professional bodies

Chris Bennett: OMG!! Marnie take down those misleading ads!

Take down those misleading ads

Geordie Shore has passed me by as a reality televisual feast but the show’s Marnie Simpson has certainly given the optical profession something to chew on

Bill Harvey: So much to answer for

So much to answer for

As this issue reaches you, the 2019 BCLA conference will be well under way in Manchester

Visus writes: Questioning OCT policy

Questioning OCT policy

I recently saw this interesting letter to an ex/potential returning patient.

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