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This webinar will help practitioners identify ways to fully understand patients’ wearing experience and explore common causes of visual and physical discomfort in contact lens wear. Using patient scenarios, this session will explore how practitioners can be armed with the knowledge and confidence needed to truly maximise contact lens comfort, giving patients the best possible wearing experience.

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This event offers a day of online education tailored to the needs of locum optometrists. Each session will be delivered by an expert in the field on a range of key topics of value to practitioners engaged in locum work.

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Globally childhood myopia is on the increase. Eye care practitioners are the first point of contact for many parents and patients when learning about myopia and the benefits to long-term ocular health that may come about from a myopia management intervention. Compliance is a key part of success in any myopia management therapy. This presentation will show how improving and continued compliance in myopia management aligns with compliance in dentistry. The presentation will also discuss cases of non-compliance and how technology and improved communication improves compliance.

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Myopia management is one of the most exciting and innovative areas of eye care today. This talk outlines the evidence surrounding the magnitude of the public health issue of myopia and the personal health and emotional impacts on our patients. The latest science behind the management of myopia will be presented and long-held practitioner beliefs on treatment efficacy and vision quality, potential rebound effects and challenges to paediatric contact lens wear will be dispelled. Exciting revolutionary new technology in a prototype soft contact lens for myopia management will be unveiled.

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This lecture will discuss the growing prevalence of myopia on a global scale and how urgent intervention is required to manage this condition. It will cover the importance of clinicians detecting early signs of myopia, and discussing with their patients, the importance of myopia management and various methods available. Myopia carries a higher risk of certain sight-threatening conditions that many patients, and their parents, may not be aware of. The importance of axial length measurement in the detection and treatment of myopia will be covered and how best to convey this to patients and their parents.

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The latest generation of myopia management spectacle lens designs appear to slow myopia progression in children at least as well as other interventions such as orthokeratology, dual-focus soft contact lenses and 0.05% atropine. This lecture will describe the optical design of these spectacle lenses and outline research papers which describe outcomes for efficacy and visual function. The lecture will conclude with clinical pathways for prescribing spectacle lenses for myopia management.

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During this session, communication with children and parents using appropriate terminology to illustrate the clinical and functional importance of myopia management will be discussed. An overview of the efficacy of myopia management contact lenses, spectacle lenses and orthokeratology will be provided as well as addressing the suitability of these treatments in terms of patient needs.

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Repeated low-level red-light therapy has been proposed as a new method to control myopia progression. It is delivered by an at-home desktop device, emitting red light through a semiconductor laser diode, under parental supervision. This webinar will present the most up-to-date information on the treatment, evidence on clinical efficacy and safety, as well as possible mechanism of the therapy.

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Back in 2017, CooperVision presented a 60-minute lecture on myopia management called ‘Time to stop talking and start doing’. Six years on, this presentation will reflect on how far the profession has come, what we’ve learned and what’s yet to overcome to make sure that no myopic child is left untreated. What more can we all do to speed up the changes needed within the profession to slow down the progression of myopia?

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This session will outline the common signs and symptoms of uveitis, how to refer patients and what will happen to them once they are seen. The role of optometrists and general practitioners in the ongoing management of uveitis will be discussed.

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In our upcoming webinar, we'll explore the three areas of identifying, preventing, and recovering from burnout. We'll share practical tips and advice to help you start to recognise and look out for the symptoms of burnout; develop strategies to prevent it from happening and recover if you're already experiencing it.

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This session will outline how optometrists in the community can better assess patients with central serous chorioretinopathy and decide on the urgency with which to refer them the Hospital Eye Service. The webinar will also provide helpful insights on imaging techniques and current treatments for the condition.

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This lunchtime webinar will help you understand how money works, from starting out in your first job, whether as an employee or self employed, and understand how you are paid and taxed under these employment types

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The last two years has tested us all beyond imagination, leaving many feeling emotionally drained, mentally exhausted and lacking in a sense of fulfilment. Through this wellbeing series, the AOP hopes to help you reconnect with what your life should be filled with and guided by - happiness.

This four part webinar series has been designed as a journey, ensuring that you have time across the year to embed your learning and new habits in between; however, the webinars can also be attended as standalone sessions that you feel might support a specific need.