View from the BCLA: Resources needed to manage dry eye disease

We have recently all been turning our clocks back, signalling the start of the British winter. The nights draw in and we all have to drive home in the dark but it is just an hour. In the grand scheme of things, not much changes.

Turn the clocks back 10 years though and the world would be a very different place.

In optometry, dry eye disease (DED) was barely acknowledged a decade ago. It has seen a huge rise in prominence across the world ever since, with clinical care for those affected now provided by professionals from a multi-disciplinary background including pharmacists, GPs, optometrists, opticians and ophthalmologists.