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

Flight risk: what safety lessons can healthcare learn from aviation?

OT talks with University College London visiting professor and consultant neuropsychologist Narinder Kapur
- 8 min read
- Practitioner stories
Professional conduct Sight test Practice management Feature
“It’s an experience that never leaves you”

Consultant vascular surgeon, Ken Woodburn, on facing a prosecution for gross negligence manslaughter
- Practitioner stories
Professional conduct Feature
Help is at hand

The AOP’s clinical adviser Farah Topia and professional adviser Henry Leonard share insight on common questions from members and the service they provide
- AOP
Professional conduct Sight test Business Feature
Avoiding racial bias in FTP cases

Concerns about disproportionate representation of BAME groups in professional conduct hearings are being investigated by UK healthcare regulators. OT finds out more
- Clinical and regulatory
Professional conduct GOC Government Feature
The GOC looks ahead

The General Optical Council’s chair, Gareth Hadley, tells OT why preparing optometrists for an ever-evolving healthcare landscape is a public protection issue
- 7 min read
- Clinical and regulatory
GOC Professional conduct Government Universities Feature
Some GOC cases to be processed without contested hearing

Certain fitness to practise cases where the registrant admits the allegation in full will be dealt with under a new consensual panel disposal policy
- Clinical and regulatory
GOC Professional conduct
Calls for protection of reflective statements

The AOP and the College of Optometrists have had their say on a review into gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare
- Clinical and regulatory
Government Legislation Professional conduct Primary care
Online sales in focus

Director of strategy at the General Optical Council, Alistair Bridge, tackles the thorny questions of regulating contact lens sales
- Clinical and regulatory
Customer service Practice management Legislation Professional conduct Feature
Optical charities react following Oxfam revelations

"All forms of exploitation, particularly by people in a position of power over others, are abhorrent and we strongly condemn them”
- Charity
HR Professional conduct
Clinical conduct 'rarely' linked to most serious sanction

More work needs to be done on debunking common fitness to practise myths, according to the GOC's head of case progression
- Clinical and regulatory
GOC Professional conduct

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