Lucy Miller

Deputy editor

Lucy Miller is deputy editor of Optometry Today (OT).

She writes and commissions business and career-focused features through the Life in practice section of the website and print journal, and covers charity, non-profit and policy news for OT online, whilst also overseeing the publication’s digital development.

Lucy has a particular interest in health policy, social issues and education, and encourages anyone with a story to share to get in touch via email.

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Glaucoma care highlighted as an example of how NHS Online will benefit patients and practitioners

Dr Peter Thomas used a hypothetical glaucoma diagnosis to explain how the NHS’ new digital trust will work in practice at NHS Confed Expo

NHS and health

1 day ago 5 min read

100% Optical

Serena Box stands in front of a blue wall on the AOP stand at 100% Optical

How to become “an eye care champion”

AOP

2 days ago

Speakers sit on a panel in front of a blue screen at NHS Confed Expo

“Fighting the good fight” to influence system change for optometry

NHS and health

12 Jun 6 min read

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OT asks...

What is your top tip for dealing with challenges or stressful situations at work?

On the High Street

11 Jun 5 min read

Senior woman talking on video call during telemedice at home

Treatment for eye conditions included in newly established Online NHS Trust

NHS and health

05 Jun

An optometrist shines a pen torch into an older woman’s eye while she sits in an armchair, looking upward during a home eye examination. The setting appears to be a living room, with wooden flooring, a side table, and a decorative lamp in the background

Decoding domiciliary

“Some of our patients call me a ‘friendly neighbourhood Spider Man’”

Domiciliary

05 Jun 7 min read

Kumell Rizvi, hospital optometrist in blue scrubs

You had me at hospital

Kumell Rizvi: “Hospital optometry is about the people that you encounter”

Hospital optometry

05 Jun 6 min read

Close up of a Caucasian woman with grey eyes

IP and me

Diagnosing acute anterior uveitis in practice

Patients

05 Jun 5 min read

A brown wallet with pound coins on a blue background

A conversation about...

Adapting your optometry business in a cost-of-living crisis

Business and practice management

05 Jun 8 min read

SeeAbility's Guinness World Records title mural is created by Tower Bridge on a cloudy day

SeeAbilty breaks Guiness World Record to highlight children with SEND missing out on eye care

Practitioner stories

04 Jun

James Murray MP, the health secretary, making his speech on the Health Bill at the House of Commons

NHS eye exams and ‘postcode lottery’ for glaucoma care discussed in Health Bill's second reading

Government and regulation

03 Jun 5 min read

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Locum optometrist launches luxury kit bag to protect optical equipment

Practitioner stories

29 May 5 min read

Visually impaired businesswoman using smartphone and earphones during business meeting

Recruitment drive to tackle Access to Work backlog announced by Government

Government and regulation

28 May

Female optometrist using an OCT machine on a patient in practice

AOP publishes Health Bill policy briefing

Government and regulation

26 May

Deven Lakhani, optometrist and director at Hammond Opticians

Locum digest

Making the move: from practice ownership to locuming

Locuming

24 May 7 min read

Cartoon woman meditates against a peach background

Locum digest

Protecting your mental health as a locum optometrist

Health and wellbeing

23 May 6 min read

A large group of people are celebrating inside a room

Primary Eyecare Services celebrates delivering one million patient assessments in a single year

Patients

22 May

Young girl with glasses smiling in a classroom setting

SEND reform gaps and digital inaccessibility in transport highlighted by RNIB after King’s Speech

Government and regulation

18 May

Parliamentary portrait of James Murray MP with a Union Jack to the right

James Murray MP appointed health secretary after Wes Streeting resignation

Government and regulation

15 May 1

Wes Streeting speaking on stage at the NHS Confederation Expo in June 2025

Wes Streeting resigns as health secretary

Government and regulation

14 May

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Blind and partially sighted people still facing “structural barriers and persistent misconceptions,” APPG says

Government and regulation

13 May

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, leave Number 10 Downing Street to attend the King’s Speech

Legislation to tackle late payments and introduction of a single patient record introduced in King’s Speech

Government and regulation

13 May

Victoria Smurfit and RNIB staff outside the charity’s headquarters on a sunny day

RNIB announces actor Victoria Smurfit as new president

Patients

13 May

Close-up of a laboratory procedure being performed under a microscope, with a researcher wearing blue gloves using tweezers and fine tools to handle a sample in a petri dish on a brightly lit workstation

Moorfields Eye Charity expands support for PhDs

Research

11 May

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Blind journalist unable to vote independently in local elections

Government and regulation

08 May

Hannah Telfer, chief executive of Vision Care, Jo Osborne, corporate social responsibility lead at Specsavers, and Megan Holmes, education and engagement manager at Vision Care

Specsavers and Vision Care homelessness partnership nominated for charity award

Practice team

07 May

Optometrist Ceri Smith Jaynes and MP Helen Morgan at Parliament

AOP emphasises need for enhanced community eye care in Parliament

AOP

07 May

Woman in red sari sewing

Global vision correction in garment workers would boost sector by $27 billion a year

Patients

06 May 1

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