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Welcome to OT 's Education library, where you can access archived CPD and CET articles, webinar recordings and video skills guides covering 31 topic areas.
With over 600,000 individuals currently waiting for NHS ophthalmology appointments, many facing delays of a year or more, effective collaboration between optometry and ophthalmology has never been more critical. This lecture explores how key clinical details in referrals can enhance treatment planning, the importance of preparing patients for their clinic appointments, and what typically happens after a referral. It also highlights innovative approaches for managing patients with complex needs and shares valuable insights from patients about what truly matters to them. Discover how small, thoughtful adjustments can significantly improve patient care and outcomes. After the video, participants will need to visit a closed group discussion on LinkedIn, to interact with their peers
Author/s: Professor Christine Purslow PhD, BSc (Hons), MCOptom
Closed: 04 Jul 2025
This Clinical interpretation exam presents a series of cases seen within the hospital eye service (HES) across eye casualty, medical retina and vitreoretinal clinics. Readers are invited to review the images and use additional resources where necessary to answer the accompanying questions
Author/s: Krupa Mistry BSc (Hons) MCOptom DipTp(IP) Prof Cert Paed Eye Care Prof Cert Glauc, Ryan Desai BOptom MCOptom DipTp(IP) Prof Cert Glauc
Closed: 30 Nov 2024
This CPD exam discusses risk factors for intraoperative complications during cataract surgery and highlights the importance of thorough examination and history taking during pre-operative consultations to improve outcomes
Author/s: Dr Kar Yen Phoong BSc MBChB, Dr Deborah Armstrong BSc (Hons) PhD MCOptom DipTp(IP)
Closed: 26 Oct 2024
This image interpretation exam features a series of eye casualty and corneal cases. Readers are invited to review the images and access additional resources where necessary to answer the questions
Author/s: Krupa Mistry BSc (Hons) MCOptom DipTp(IP) Prof Cert Paed Eye Care Prof Cert Glauc
Closed: 03 Mar 2023
In this lecture, Professor Keith Barton, (Moorfields and UCL) provides an overview of glaucoma surgery and how it has evolved. You will be able to see detailed videos of glaucoma tube surgery and understand the evidence behind the use of various techniques to lower eye pressure. This CPD involves a discussion on LinkedIn, to gain interactive points
Author/s: Keith Barton
Closed: 03 Feb 2023
This Image interpretation exam invites practitioners to assess the Hess plots and case histories, accessing additional resources where required to answer the questions
Author/s: Nabilla Aslam MedSci (Hons) Prof Cert Glauc, Dr Deborah Armstrong BSc (Hons) PhD MCOptom DipTp(IP)
Closed: 02 Sep 2022
This lecture presents real case examples of patients who attended a large ophthalmic emergency department. Helen Wilson, from Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, discusses the presenting signs and symptoms, differential diagnoses, ocular and systemic investigation and treatment regimes for these cases.
Closed: 28 Dec 2021
In this Survival Pack CET Video exam, we look behind the curtain of secondary care to hear how referral letters are received and dealt with. We hear from an optometrist whose job it is to triage referrals, as well as from an ophthalmologist who is responsible for providing the right treatment in a timely manner with finite resources. They will discuss the content of a helpful and an unhelpful referral letter and how to build a better relationship between primary and secondary eye care
Author/s: Melanie Hingorani, Rachel Thomas
When a red eye presents to your practice, it is vital you can differentiate the simple cases from those that threaten the sight. Filmed at Moorfields Private Eye Hospital, this Core Skills video takes you through diagnosis and management of the red eye. We will look at history, symptoms, examination, differential diagnosis and management of the red eye.
Author/s: Dr Laura de Benito-Llopis
Closed: 27 Dec 2020
In this video, we look behind the curtain of secondary care to hear how referral letters are received and dealt with. We hear from an optometrist, whose job it is to triage referrals, and an ophthalmologist, who is responsible for providing the right treatment in a timely manner with finite resources. They will discuss the content of a helpful and an unhelpful referral letter and how to build a better relationship between primary and secondary eye care
This recorded webinar covers all the common eyelid lumps seen in clinical practice – both benign and malignant. Susan Sarangapani discusses which features should be looked for to help assess whether an eyelid lesion is suspicious and should be referred urgently and which are benign, with reference to CCG Guidelines on eligibility for NHS treatment.
Author/s: Susan Sarangapani
Closed: 09 Nov 2020
This CET exam provides answers to questions commonly asked by patients when they are referred from primary care with suspect glaucoma and subsequently managed within secondary care
Author/s: Dr Deborah Armstrong BSc (Hons) PhD MCOptom DipTp(IP)
Closed: 22 May 2020
