Emily McCormick

Deputy editor

Emily McCormick is deputy editor of Optometry Today, where she produces content for both the website and the journal. She has a particular interest in charity and business stories, and is responsible for the In practice section of the journal.

More articles by Emily McCormick

Aberdeen practice welcomes homeless

The opticians offered free eye care and spectacles
- OT news and features
- Pulished 15 Jan 2020
- by Emily McCormick
High Street Multiple Patients Sight test
Independent optometrist provides eye care to homeless people

Victoria Smith has been running a clinic in Sheffield once a month since April
- OT news and features
- Pulished 02 Dec 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Practitioner stories Patients Sight test Independent
False positives explained

Optometrist and AOP clinical director, Peter Hampson, discusses the Association’s newly released false positive referral factsheet
- OT news and features
- Pulished 22 Nov 2019
- by Emily McCormick
AOP NHS Sight test Glaucoma
Specsavers team travels to India to test sight

The Specsavers Ireland team tested the sight of more than 1000 people during a week-long project
- OT news and features
- Pulished 18 Nov 2019
- by Emily McCormick
High Street Sight test Multiple
Locumotive volunteers test the sight of 1000 people in India

The eight day trip was led by Locumotive optometrist Gautam Passi
- OT news and features
- Pulished 30 Oct 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Charity Sight test Patients
Specsavers team tests sight in Ghana

Optometrists and dispensing opticians from the multiple spent nine days in the country testing the sight of 1842 people
- OT news and features
- Pulished 29 Oct 2019
- by Emily McCormick
High Street Multiple Sight test
The rules of driving

OT speaks a trio of optical professionals about the current legislation for vision and driving as they share their views on raising awareness of regular sight tests, spare pairs of spectacles and if the law should change
- OT news and features
- Pulished 27 Oct 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Business management Driving Legislation Sight test Independent Feature
The gift of sight

Charity encourages practices to reach out locally to provide sight tests for the homeless at Christmas
- OT news and features
- Pulished 21 Oct 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Charity Sight test
Over one billion people living with vision impairment

WHO stats shine a light on global visual impairment prevalence
- OT news and features
- Pulished 09 Oct 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Optical organisations Blind Sight test
Orbis UK campaign raises £1.4m

See my future appeal has donations matched by the UK Government
- OT news and features
- Pulished 02 Oct 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Charity Fundraising Sight test Children