Selina Powell

Assistant editor

Selina Powell is assistant editor for Optometry Today, where she focuses on covering the latest innovations and research in eye health. She also profiles what optometrists get up to outside of the consulting room through her regular Secret life of the optometrist feature.

Selina worked as a journalist for weekly and daily newspapers in New Zealand before moving to the UK in 2016.

More articles by Selina Powell

My strangest day…

Optometrists share memorable moments from practice
- OT news and features
- Pulished 09 Jan 2020
- by Selina Powell
Practitioner stories Sight test Customer service Patients Sight impairment Feature
Closing the distance

Is providing eye care by internet the silver bullet clinicians have been waiting for? OT learns how video consulting technology is changing the way healthcare is delivered in Scotland
- OT news and features
- Pulished 22 Dec 2019
- by Selina Powell
Technology NHS Universities Customer service Feature
Going the distance

Connecting patients and clinicians through video consulting technology could help more patients in remote communities receive the care they need
- OT news and features
- Pulished 19 Dec 2019
- by Selina Powell
NHS Customer service Hospital optometrists
“For many people with learning disabilities this is a great step forward”

SeeAbility and Beyond Words have launched a picture book that aims to raise awareness of the importance of eye health
- OT news and features
- Pulished 05 Sep 2019
- by Selina Powell
Charity Sight impairment Customer service
Q&A: Robin Spinks

RNIB senior technology and innovation relationships manager at the RNIB, Robin Spinks (pictured), talks to OT about a sunflower lanyard and changing lives through tech
- OT news and features
- Pulished 07 Aug 2019
- by Selina Powell
Optical organisations Blind Customer service Low vision
“The patient is at the heart”

Practitioners emphasised that offering contact lenses can improve the service on offer to patients at a roundtable event hosted by CooperVision and OT
- OT news and features
- Pulished 26 Jul 2019
- by Selina Powell, Laurence Derbyshire
Contact lenses Customer service Sight test
Support in the community

How a low vision scheme run by Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group is helping to turn around the lives of older patients
- OT news and features
- Pulished 23 Jul 2019
- by Selina Powell
Health services Low vision Sight impairment Customer service NHS Feature
Eye injury risk prompts recall of Neutrogena light therapy acne mask

A light therapy treatment for mild to moderate acne has been recalled due to eye health concerns
- OT news and features
- Pulished 22 Jul 2019
- by Selina Powell
Clinical and regulatory Health Sight impairment Customer service
Cost of sight test, pressure to buy spectacles and physical closeness among patients' bugbears

Public perceptions research from the GOC reveals common sources of patient discomfort about visiting an optometrist
- OT news and features
- Pulished 17 Jul 2019
- by Selina Powell
Optical organisations GOC Customer service Sight test
Eye, robot

Nine ways artificial intelligence is changing eye care
- OT news and features
- Pulished 01 Jul 2019
- by Selina Powell
Technology Hospital optometrists Customer service Low vision Feature