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

“The ability to provide gene therapy is a major landmark in NHS care”

Jake Ternant, 23, became the first patient to receive the £600,000 Luxturna treatment through the NHS at Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Health services
NHS Treatment Genetics
PHE issues coronavirus caution

Optometrists and other primary care workers have been told not to take appointment bookings from patients who may be at risk of coronavirus
- Health services
Health NHS Practice management Customer service Coronavirus
UK eye surgeries live-streamed to Italian conference

Around 100 trainee doctors had the chance to see two Manchester Royal Eye Hospital surgeons perform viteoretinal procedures
- Research
Treatment NHS Hospital optometrists
Moorfields Eye Hospital surgeon named UK Australian of the year

Professor Lyndon da Cruz follows in the footsteps of Kylie Minogue, Professor Germaine Greer and Clive James
- Health services
Health NHS Retina
CCGs approve plans for relocation of Moorfields Eye Hospital

A Committee in Common has agreed to a new £250m development that would see Moorfields move its City Road services to Camden
- Health services
NHS Hospital optometrists
Myth busting

Tackling the spread of misinformation in the wake of the novel coronavirus
- Blogs
Health Practice management NHS Primary care
AOP publishes coronavirus advice

Optometrists are advised that patients with cold or flu symptoms can be asked to book their appointment for when they have fully recovered
- Health services
Health Customer service NHS Primary care Coronavirus
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
- Career development
- 1
NHS Universities Independent prescribers Feature
Patient receives injection in wrong eye

A software glitch that transposed digital photographs of the eye resulted in an injection error at Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Health services
Hospital optometrists Patients NHS
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
- 6 min read
- Practitioner stories
NHS Government AOP Council Feature

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