Having outgrown its existing space, the new Centre for Eyecare Excellence will support more optometry teaching and patient ...

More than half of optometrists in Scotland are under the age of 40, while one in four have an independent prescribing ...

Feedback from AOP members has informed the association’s submission on proposals by the optical regulator to update business regulation ...

Canadian researchers have examined OCT data from 13 astronauts who spent between 157 and 186 days on the International Space ...

The Optometric Fees Negotiating Committee (OFNC) joined healthcare sector partners to host an MP drop-in session in Parliament this week (Tuesday 28 January). The event was designed to galvanise ...

A woman in Beijing who presented to hospital with a foreign body sensation in her right eye was found to be suffering from a parasitic infection ...

This section holds information for student and pre-registration members starting out in their optical careers, including our pre-registration vacancy list, and also on the different career choices ...

Specsavers Harrogate has supported a local woman to become an eye clinic liaison officer (ECLO). Helen McGrath, who was registered blind after experiencing two strokes in 2014, is now an ECLO with ...

Kate Gannon, deputy director of programme funding at Orbis UK, told OT: “With our dedicated partners, we’re working to ensure no-one has to live with avoidable blindness.” ...

The most common reason given in interviews for not attending a diabetic eye screening appointment related to mental health ...

The research illustrated “substantial benefits” of enhanced optometry services in community practices handling conditions ...

A speech made by Sir Stephen Powis, medical director of NHS England, in which he highlighted the need to move care out of ...