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

“Dismay” at decision to charge for paper GOS forms

08 May 2017 by Selina Powell

Optometrists in Scotland will be charged 45p for each paper claim submitted from 1 July

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Long path to diagnosis revealed at parliamentary event

03 May 2017 by Selina Powell

An MBE recipient living with dementia has described her “emotional turmoil” during six years pinpointing the cause of her sight loss

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Care model toolkit launched

04 Apr 2017 by Selina Powell

Moorfields Eye Hospital releases an online resource to bolster the provision of single specialty services

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‘Frustrating’ sight test fees freeze

30 Mar 2017 by Selina Powell

The amount that optometrists are paid by the government to carry out a sight test will remain unchanged

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NHS commissions uveitis treatment

20 Mar 2017 by Selina Powell

Adalimumab is now available for patients with severe refractory uveitis who do not respond to other treatments

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What does the spring Budget means for optics?

10 Mar 2017 by Selina Powell

Funding to alleviate business rate woes, and higher tax rates for locums feature in announcement

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