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

The hardest words

Navigating sensitive topics in practice can be a challenging task for optometrists. From driving to sight-threatening conditions, practitioners share their tips for tackling difficult conversations
- OT news and features
- Pulished 27 Mar 2020
- by Selina Powell
Practitioner stories Customer service Communication Feature
The case for change

From better technology to equal access to sight tests, optometrists share seven changes they would like to see in NHS England
- OT news and features
- Pulished 08 Mar 2020
- by Selina Powell
Health services NHS Sight test GOS Government Feature
A perfect match

How artificial intelligence is being applied to visual fields
- OT news and features
- Pulished 01 Mar 2020
- by Selina Powell
Career development CPD Feature
IP and me

Optometrists Suresh Munyal and Andy Britton describe the benefits that an independent prescribing qualification has brought to their practice – and its role in future-proofing the profession
- OT news and features
- Pulished 10 Feb 2020
- by Selina Powell
Career development NHS Universities Independent prescribers Feature
“My purpose as an academic is to serve and give something back”

Dr Rakhee Shah shares how she balances roles as an academic, optometrist and an AOP Councillor
- OT news and features
- Pulished 03 Feb 2020
- by Selina Powell
Career development Universities Feature
The changemakers

OT talks with three optometrists who have stepped up to the challenge of changing the systems that underpin their practice through political roles
- OT news and features
- Pulished 29 Jan 2020
- by Selina Powell
Practitioner stories NHS Government AOP Council Feature
Milestone moments

OT takes a look at landmark events in optometry over the past six decades
- OT news and features
- Pulished 10 Jan 2020
- by Selina Powell
AOP Government NHS Business Multiple Independent OCT Feature
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
A new focus

OT learns how providing sight tests and spectacles to the homeless is helping to change lives in Hampshire and Dorset
- OT news and features
- Pulished 03 Jan 2020
- by Selina Powell
Health services Sight test Primary care NHS 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