Bill Harvey: A.O.R.

Over recent months, we have featured a number of articles highlighting some of the new roles that optometrists are currently taking on and are increasingly likely to become involved with in the future.

I believe the use of laser treatments will eventually fall into the optometrist’s job description. Indeed, many hospital optometrists are currently undertaking such procedures as selective laser trabeculoplasty and YAG capsulotomy. And with courses planned for training community-based optometrists in these procedures, such as the one already scheduled (and fully booked) to take place in Bristol just before Christmas, it is just a matter of time until laser treatment hits the primary care practices.