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

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  Government confirms people with sight loss can be guided by a person from a different household

  The Department of Health and Social Care has clarified how social distancing restrictions affect blind and visually impaired people

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 14 Sep 2020
  • by Selina Powell

  Health services Blind Government Coronavirus
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  Optos awarded funding to explore AI applications within NHS

  The Fife company will conduct a clinical study to explore the potential of automatic grading within the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 11 Sep 2020
  • by Selina Powell

  Technology Diabetes Sight test
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  AOP to host free webinar on the GOC's Education Strategic Review

  GOC director of education, Leonie Milliner, will provide an overview of planned changes to education and how optical professionals can have their say

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 10 Sep 2020
  • by Selina Powell

  AOP GOC Education
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  Research to explore link between diabetic eye disease and COVID-19 risk

  Eye research charity, Fight for Sight, and Diabetes UK collaborate to investigate COVID-19 complications in diabetic retinopathy patients

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 07 Sep 2020
  • by Selina Powell

  Research Diabetes Coronavirus Health
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  Optical organisations leave joint headquarters in London

  ABDO, FODO and FMO vacate the premises at 199 Gloucester Terrace

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 07 Sep 2020
  • by Selina Powell

  Optical organisations Education Coronavirus
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  OFNC calls for clarity on funding arrangements for optical practices in England

  Concerns have been raised by the Optometric Fees Negotiating Committee about the lack of clarity provided by NHS England on financial support

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 04 Sep 2020
  • by Selina Powell

  Health services NHS Practice management Government
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  “There is an element of nostalgia with sweets”

  Optometrist Pretty Basra on how a fledgling sweet business gave her back a sense of purpose during lockdown

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 03 Sep 2020
  • by Selina Powell

  Practitioner stories Spectacles Customer service Coronavirus Feature
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  Coronavirus: the optics briefing

  A new eye unit opens in Northallerton, furlough winds down, and more than 70 organisations flag concerns over the dismantlement of PHE

  • OT news and features
  • by Selina Powell, Kimberley Young

  Health NHS Government Coronavirus
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  Scientists trial using smartphones for fundus imaging in India

  Researchers took smartphone retinal images of 193 diabetes patients to investigate the potential of the technology for screening

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 01 Sep 2020
  • by Selina Powell

  Technology Sight test Diabetes Sight impairment
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  Making the message stick: ‘no water’ labels could aid contact lens hygiene

  Scientists have investigated the impact of providing ‘no water’ stickers with contact lens cases

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 28 Aug 2020
  • by Selina Powell

  Research Contact lenses Communication Customer service