Bill Harvey: Dragged down by the stone

The second of this week’s CET articles reminds us of the importance of providing eye care to those with learning disabilities – people with a high likelihood of refractive and ocular problems.

Despite current challenges, the NHS England special schools eye care programme, set up in response to SeeAbility’s research, is gaining pace. The authors of our CET told me, ‘following a drive to recruit optometrists and opticians in north-west England at the end of last year, finally, with the end of lockdown approaching, training and planning for these clinics can proceed. We now need to create some energy to recruit both optometrists and dispensing opticians in the south and north-west London area.’ If you are interested in finding out more, please email l.donaldson@seeability.org to get involved.