Health and wellbeing webinars

This webinar will include real case examples of patients who attended a large ophthalmic emergency department. During the session, we will discuss the importance of history taking when examining these patients as well as detailed descriptions of the presenting signs and symptoms will be discussed as well as the differential diagnoses and referral criteria for such cases.

This webinar will explore the signs, referral protocols, treatment and outcomes for patients presenting with intraocular tumours.

Assertiveness is a skill that can be developed, and using assertive communication can bring significant benefits to the way that you approach situations, provide feedback, and express your wants and needs at work.

We’ll discuss different types of assertive behaviours and how our style can influence what we say and how we say it.

This online lecture will explore the important design and material properties of multifocal soft contact lenses that differentiate them from one another.

This information together with a thorough examination of the anterior eye and consideration of the prescription for each patient, alongside proper use of the manufacturer’s fit guide can lead to perfect first fit success.

The last in our series of webinars for the practice team, delivered in partnership with Johnson & Johnson Vision, this will explore the motivations behind contact lens wear and provide insight and ideas on how to identify potential new contact lens wearers.

Striving to improve confidence in conversations, we will explore the opportunities within practice to increase your contact lens patient base.

This webinar, delivered in partnership with CooperVision, is designed to support ECPs in weighing up myopia management options, so they can apply evidence-based practice to their advice, in consultation with the patient, to select the most appropriate approach for the child in their consulting room.

Professor James Wolffsohn and Indie Grewal will share the latest clinical evidence-base supporting myopia management and how clinicians can equip themselves to turn this knowledge into application in the consulting room.

The third in our series of practice team focussed webinars, delivered in partnership with Johnson & Johnson Vision, this session will offer practical advice to members of the practice team to assist with undertaking OCT scans and visual field assessments.

Our ability to understand emotions is a lifelong skill.

Emotional Intelligence (EI) helps us to perceive our own emotions as well as those around us allowing us to regulate, respond and build relationships effectively.

By appreciating EI you will see the positive impact that it can have on your day-to-day work in the way that you communicate and engage with your team and patients.

The second in our series for the practice team, delivered in partnership with Johnson and Johnson Vision, will take a case record approach to explore the advantages, disadvantages and what to consider when choosing a progressive power lens, including an overview of lens types, the measurements required and how to take them, along with making appropriate frame choices.

The first in our series for practice team members, delivered in partnership with Johnson & Johnson Vision, this webinar will explore some of the common clinical and non-clinical dilemmas that may be faced by the practice team on a typical day in practice.

In this webinar, primary care practitioners will learn about when choroidal naevi should be referred to the hospital eye service and when they can be safely managed within primary care. Practitioners will learn what clinical features to look for when assessing choroidal naevi.

In this webinar, we look about change management skills and how you can adopt these into the workplace.

Book your place online for the webinar - Stage 2 of the Scheme for Registration is an opportunity for a pre-registration trainee to show that they have maintained the competence that they have successfully demonstrated during Stage 1 of the Scheme.

Despite knowing that the skills and knowledge that will be assessed during a Stage 2 visit have already been successfully demonstrated, many trainees feel that their impending Stage 2 assessments will be a daunting experience.

In this webinar, we look at the legal definition of dishonesty, reflect on cases that have been before the GOC and discuss how to avoid unfounded allegations being made against an optometry professional.

The IR35 off-payroll changes have finally arrived and many end clients and agencies are still unprepared which then has a knock-on effect to the contractors engaged via limited companies.

This webinar, supported by Johnson & Johnson Vision, considers the legislation and the practicalities of meeting the responsibilities and liabilities it creates for the contractual chain.