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Bill Harvey: Arise

Things are moving quickly.

Chris Bennett: Generation defining moments

Covid-19 is pushing the limits of our health service, government and ...

Simon Jones: War footing

As I write this, Optician is in the middle of readying its team for what looks ...

Viewpoint: Diary of a spectacle designer

Tom Davies tries to take stock of the first wave of effects coronavirus is ...

Bill Harvey: Stay clean

It seems that there is a place for expert opinion after all.

Bill Harvey: Stained class

This week, the GOC clarified the legal position on the use of lissamine green ...

View from the High Street: Customising our care

Satvinder Soomal considers how each case is unique and we need to treat them as ...

Simon Jones: A new normal

Coronavirus has quickly become an all-consuming global event that could create ...

AOA partners with Lyft

The partnership will offer free journeys to and from an optometrists

Scottish opticians win award

Urquhart Opticians scooped the 2020 Ayrshire Business Excellence Award.

Bill Harvey: Skull beneath the skin

In 2015, 48% of people surveyed in Birmingham said they were tattooed and had ...

Moneo writes: Doing things by the outdated book

Moneo: The outdated book

A short while ago I took part in a practice inspection prior to granting of an NHS contract.

View from: BCLA

You may, by now, have seen new research highlighting the apparent non-compliance of contact lens patients

Simon Jones: Parlour talk

As someone with only a passing interest in tattoos, I can still appreciate the artform and I don’t think I would be harming any future job prospects by revealing that I have one.

Mentoris writes: What’s the point?

Mentoris: What’s the point?

Writing this column gives me the chance to look back on situations that have had an impact on me during my life both within and outside of optics.

Letters: Recruiter regulation

Just before Christmas, I was cold called by an optical employment agency.

Simon Jones: Spread betting

With the postponement of this weekend’s Mido exhibition in Milan, Coronavirus and its seemingly unstoppable spread is now a little too close to home.

Diary of a spectacle designer

Tom Davies explains how coronavirus brought UK operations to a standstill

Letters: Myopia control spectacle lenses

Letters: Myopia control lenses

One appreciates this is an ongoing key topic for practitioners and one we ourselves as spectacle makers do try to follow as attentively as possible, notwithstanding today it being a subject mostly contact lens focused.

Simon Jones: 'Net clicks and chill

'Net clicks and chill

Online optical retail is likely to have another major player in the very near future.

Bill Harvey: Refuse/Resist

Over the weekend, the College of Optometrists published online some very useful resources for all of us working in primary care and who may come into contact with the novel coronavirus.