John White

Editor and deputy communications director

John White is the editor of Optometry Today (OT), where he focuses on developing content for the journal and the website. Readers with ideas for articles and news stories, as well as letters for OT’s Letters page, are encouraged to get in touch.

John is also deputy director of communications for the AOP, and his background is in STEM publishing.

More articles by John White

What we can achieve

The NHS needs to learn to engage with optometry and see what it can achieve for public health
- OT news and features
- Pulished 28 Nov 2019
- by John White
NHS
Imran Hakim scoops national business prize

The optometrist and business leader is recognised as a Scale-Up Entrepreneur of the Year at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards
- OT news and features
- Pulished 14 Nov 2019
- by John White
Practitioner stories Multiple Business Awards
Why getting out and about matters

There is a simple rule in journalism: your phone is your best friend…
- OT news and features
- Pulished 07 Nov 2019
- by John White
Patients
DVLA announces contract has been retained by Specsavers

DVLA Vision Testing Service will remain with the High Street multiple
- OT news and features
- Pulished 01 Nov 2019
- by John White
High Street Driving Sight test Multiple Independent
We appear to only just have scratched the surface of understanding glaucoma

Optometrist Peter Richardson reports back to OT from the inaugural Advances in Glaucoma Research and Clinical Science meeting in Amsterdam
- OT news and features
- Pulished 30 Oct 2019
- by John White
Research Glaucoma Events
No birthday barriers

The world’s our oyster – irrespective of how old we are
- OT news and features
- Pulished 17 Oct 2019
- by John White
Driving Patients Sight test
Emeritus Professor Robert Fletcher remembered

Dr Janet Voke pays tribute to the life and work of her father
- OT news and features
- Pulished 04 Oct 2019
- by John White
Practitioner stories Obituary
Contact lens recall following quality standards concern from the MHRA

Johnson & Johnson Vision has voluntarily withdrawn two full and one partial master lots of 1-day Acuvue Moist for Astigmatism contact lenses from Europe, Middle East and Asia markets
- OT news and features
- Pulished 27 Sep 2019
- by John White
Contact lenses Patients
Gaining confidence in contact lenses

Newly-qualified optometrist Rebecca English on presenting her research in a competition, loving contact lenses, and changing the lives of patients
- OT news and features
- Pulished 16 Sep 2019
- by John White
Career development Students Universities Feature
Digging the digs

How universities are rethinking what students should get from their years of study and training
- OT news and features
- Pulished 12 Sep 2019
- by John White
Students Universities