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

Coronavirus: the daily optics briefing

AOP urges further support for self-employed locums, LOCSU levy payments on pause and your COVID-19 questions answered
- OT news and features
- Pulished 03 Apr 2020
- by Selina Powell
Health NHS Government Coronavirus
NHS England breaks radio silence

NHS England has set out the ‘new normal’ for optical practices although questions remain about what it will mean in practice
- OT news and features
- Pulished 02 Apr 2020
- by Selina Powell
Business Coronavirus NHS Government Professional conduct
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
Three reasons to be hopeful

A roundup of stories within optics that speak to the promise of the profession during uncertain times
- OT news and features
- Pulished 05 Mar 2020
- by Selina Powell
Government Health Treatment Spectacles
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
NHS consults on proposal to stop publishing GOS data

Statistics that would no longer be published under the plan include the number of NHS-funded sight tests carried out each year and the number of ophthalmic practitioners
- OT news and features
- Pulished 26 Nov 2019
- by Selina Powell
Health services NHS GOS Government
Eyes on the road

OT investigates the crucial role that optometrists can play in keeping UK roads safe
- OT news and features
- Pulished 25 Oct 2019
- by Selina Powell
Clinical and regulatory Driving Government Sight test Campaign Feature
New nationwide eye care network in Scotland

Scottish Eyecare for Everyone aims to bring together stakeholders to tackle issues relating to eye health
- OT news and features
- Pulished 09 Oct 2019
- by Selina Powell
Optical organisations NHS Government
IR35: tax shakeup to extend to private sector

Locum optometrists and practices that employ locums will be affected by tax changes that take effect in April 2020
- OT news and features
- Pulished 01 Oct 2019
- by Selina Powell
Business management Locums Business HR Government Legislation