View from the BCLA: 2017 promises great advances

For many, 2016 has been a year of upheaval, uncertainty and huge change. But while the political landscape, at home and abroad, has been rocked by a seismic shift in public opinion, the optometry world has seen sustained progress, technological advances and a number of significant breakthroughs.

The past 12 months may not have seen a revolution, but it’s certainly been an evolution of thinking around topics such as myopia management.

Practitioners and public alike now have a far greater awareness and understanding of this area and the UK in particular is waking up to the fact that it is time to help manage the epidemic of myopia.