Selina Powell

Features Editor

Selina Powell is the features editor of Optometry Today (OT), where she writes in-depth features for the print journal and is responsible for the development of supplements in collaboration with commercial partners. Selina also covers eye health research for OT, keeping practitioners up to date with the latest developments through the Science & vision section of the website and the clinical round-up in print. She talks to optometrists about their pursuits outside of the testing room for OT’s regular Secret life article, while her My vision feature showcases the experiences of people with conditions that affect their sight.

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

Q&A: Andrew Robertson

OT talks with the director of private care at Moorfields Eye Hospital
- 5 min read
- Health services
NHS Coronavirus Cataracts Treatment Hospital optometrists
Women in Vision UK to expand

The network for women working in optometry, ophthalmology and vision sciences has a new structure and website
- Optical organisations
NHS
NI Commissioner for Older People intervenes in case challenging lengthy hospital waiting lists

May Kitchen, 77, resorted to paying for private cataract surgery after she was advised that she would have to wait up to four years for funded treatment
- Health services
NHS Cataracts Treatment Government Coronavirus
NHS commissioners encouraged to make use of primary care

MECS, CUES, PEARS, cataract and glaucoma pathways are among services that new guidance encourages commissioners to utilise
- Health services
NHS Government Extended services Primary care
GOS sight test fee to increase by 2%

The sight test fee, CET allowances and pre-registration supervision grants will all increase by 2% from April 2022
- Health services
- 1
NHS OFNC GOS
A snapshot of UK hospital optometry

A new study has examined the scope of practice of optometrists working within the hospital eye service
- Health services
NHS Hospital optometrists
NHS to stop funding flu vaccinations for primary care workers

The AOP has expressed disappointment at the decision to stop funding primary care vaccinations for the 2022/2023 flu programme
- Health services
Health Practice management Employment advice NHS
Cataract surgery reduces risk of dementia by close to 30%

A US study has explored the association between cataract extraction and the development of dementia
- Research
- 1
Sight impairment Cataracts NHS Neuroscience Health
Hospital eye admissions increase 73% over two decades

The number of patients admitted to hospital for diseases of the eye and adnexa has risen significantly in England and Wales since 1999
- Research
Hospital optometrists Sight impairment NHS Treatment
PCSE begins reclaiming upfront GOS payments

Practices will be required to repay advance payments made in 2021 prompted by glitches in the rollout of a new paper GOS system
- Health services
Practice management NHS GOS

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