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Bill Harvey: Sniff ’n’ the tears

About a quarter of the UK population suffer from ‘photosneezia’.

Simon Jones: Ghost-busters

As Optician goes to press, details of another optometry petition have just ...

Bill Harvey: Pigs on the wing

Just when I thought there was some sense of normality returning.

Simon Jones: Oven-ready ESR

Perhaps the most damning assessment of the GOC's ESR process to date has been ...

Spare us the cutter

Bill Harvey: Spare us the cutter

At the risk of sounding as hopelessly optimistic as Eric Idle, one of the ...

Moneo: One year to deliver

Moneo writes: One year to deliver

The other day I was reading an email thread about contracts with Clinical ...

Wheels of confusion

Bill Harvey: Wheels of confusion

When I worked in the hospital eye service all those years ago, I remember being ...

Mentoris: Mentor gymnastics

Mentoris writes: Mentor gymnastics

As a business owner, your relationship with your business can sometimes be a ...

View from: OCCS

As our industry emerges from lockdown there has been an emerging trend on ...

Simon Jones: Smart thinking

Facebook and EssilorLuxottica, eh? Who’d have thought it?

Viewpoint: Designer diary

Viewpoint: Diary of a spectacle designer

Tom Davies is bouncing back but finding it difficult to keep up

Simon Jones: World in union

GOC-registered optometrists and dispensing opticians have got themselves a union, thanks to the Ophthalmic Practitioners Group (OPG).

Bill Harvey: Don’t need a weatherman

Don’t need a weatherman

Remember when a government aide sent a memo to staff suggesting that ‘9/11’ might be a good time to ‘bury’ any controversial news?

Simon Jones: Time tae talk tough

Time tae talk tough

One thing that struck my wife and I while we were north of the border was just how engaged everyone is in combatting the spread of coronavirus

Bill Harvey: The drugs don't work

The drugs don't work

It couldn’t happen here.

Moneo writes: More than a funny slogan

More than a funny slogan

Mrs Moneo and myself seem to have set most of our various insurance policies and utilities contracts to renew in August or September

View From: BCLA

This time last year I was finalising the content for my BCLA presidential address

Chris Bennett: On trend for 25 years

Staying on trend for 25 years

It was kind of Professor Philip Morgan to name check Optician in his quarter century Contact Lens Trends Survey

Bill Harvey: Zero the hero

Some weeks back, I wrote that, though the WHO had clearly made some mistakes during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic

Mentoris writes: Performance review time

Performance review time

It is now 12 months since my first article as Mentoris

Chris Bennett: No going back

It may be tempting fate to think about getting back to business but this week’s look at dry eye gives a glimpse of the future

Bill Harvey: Born stubborn

At last year’s AAO conference, I remember hearing about a soon-to-be-launched fields screener

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