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

GOC publishes guidance on disclosing confidential patient information

Move follows research that registrants lacked confidence to decide when to override confidentiality to ensure public protection
- OT news and features
- Pulished 24 Feb 2020
- by John White
Optical organisations GOC Driving Sight test Patients Communication
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
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
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Johnson & Johnson Vision has voluntarily withdrawn two full and one partial master lots of 1-day Acuvue Moist for Astigmatism contact lenses from Europe, Middle East and Asia markets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
Substandard frames bought online a safety issue, warns consumer watchdog

Which? investigation names and shames online retailers that fail test, and calls for improved standards
- OT news and features
- Pulished 09 Sep 2019
- by John White
High Street Customer service Spectacles Patients
AOP updates on CET claims for 2019 in England and Wales

The window for practitioners performing GOS sight tests in England and Wales to claim for 2018 CET is now open
- OT news and features
- Pulished 01 Jul 2019
- by John White
AOP Patients
Contact lens innovation to “deal with modern life”

Acuvue Oasys with Transitions Light Intelligent Technology launches at BCLA Conference 2019
- OT news and features
- Pulished 19 Jun 2019
- by John White, Laurence Derbyshire
Contact lenses Patients
A new mindset for interventional glaucoma

Dr Ike Ahmed calls for a long-term strategy of blindness prevention at SECO 2019
- OT news and features
- Pulished 29 Mar 2019
- by John White
Technology Glaucoma Patients
A new era in the contact lens category

Johnson & Johnson Vision's Zohra Fadli speaks about the behind the scenes work that has culminated in the launch of Acuvue Oasys with Transitions Light Intelligent Technology
- OT news and features
- Pulished 14 Mar 2019
- by John White
Contact lenses Patients
CE mark approval for Acuvue Oasys with Transitions Light Intelligent Technology

An “entirely new type of contact lens” set to launch in the UK in 2019
- OT news and features
- Pulished 12 Mar 2019
- by John White
Contact lenses Patients