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OT asks...

Do you have one tip for building flexibility into your week?

Seven contributors to OT’s Flexibility matters edition share their wisdom

Health and wellbeing

1 day ago

An older woman and younger man are laughing happily together. The woman has a patch over one eye, suggesting she has had cataract surgery, while the man holds her shoulders in a friendly manner

World Sight Day 2026: “Every professional can help build momentum for change”

Practitioner stories

2 days ago

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Classroom to qualification

Completing the first CLiP assessments as a trainee optometrist

Students and pre-regs

02 Oct 3 mins

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In focus

Making a declaration for health concerns: one member’s experience

Practitioner stories

02 Oct 8 min read

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Latest launches

Management tools

Products

02 Oct

Simon Raw holds up a mirror to show an elderly female patient her new frames in her living room

Behind the cover story

Behind the scenes of our Flexibility matters edition

Practitioner stories

02 Oct

100% Optical

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Register early and plan your 2027 show visit

Practice team

02 Oct

From our partners

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In focus

CLiP: from application to qualification

Students and pre-regs

02 Oct 10 min read

A young girl wearing spectacles is photographed, smiling hopefully upwards, against a blue-green background

Supplier insight

How can practices approach myopia management advances?

Products

02 Oct 5 min read

Adam Sampson stands before a screen to present for an AOP roadshow day

On the ground at the AOP

An AOP explainer on... mobilising members

AOP

02 Oct 3 mins

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What’s happening in...

Getting a wider view

Products

02 Oct

Zahir-Ally Kanji with his practice team

A day in the life of a business owner

Zahir-Ally Kanji: “I structure my day around my energy”

Business and practice management

02 Oct 3 mins

Selina interviewing

OT on the go

Our movements over the past 60 days

AOP

02 Oct

Simon Raw stands beside vehicle

The cover story

In the balance

Practitioner stories

02 Oct 15 min read

Vik stands in an optical practice with walls of warm wooden displays. He wears bold rectangle spectacles in a deep royal-blue, matching his jumper. He looks seriously at the camera

Me and my glasses

Vik Malhi: “The right pair of glasses does not change who you are. It reveals who you have always been”

Products

02 Oct 5 min read

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The CEO’s view

Adam Sampson: “These issues are not going away”

AOP

02 Oct 4 mins

A young woman with curly hair wearing glasses holds a pair of frames and is surrounded by frames on the wall of an optometry practice

At the dispensing desk

Raising tinted lenses

Products

02 Oct 5 mins

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A final thought

Catherine McGuckin: “Flexibility means working in an environment that supports my career, learning, and professional development”

AOP

02 Oct 3 mins

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Behind the brand

ReForm Eyewear: “A whole new world of possibilities”

Products

02 Oct

Inflammation and localised dilation of the episcleral small vessels external layer of the sclerotic

IP and me

Tenderness and aching in the right eye after a period of stress

Patients

02 Oct 5 min read

Joel is photographed by a waterfall with a dog playing at his feet

Dream team

A peek inside... Fulgoni Opticians

Practice team

02 Oct

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A conversation about...

Managing a flexible optometry career

Career development

02 Oct 13 min read

Amandeep Tatra in practice

How I got here

Amandeep Tatra: “I am always looking to try and improve as a clinician”

Career development

02 Oct 5 min read 5 mins

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Decoding domiciliary

Amanda Nasser: “We’re there to help people improve their vision and improve their quality of life”

Domiciliary

02 Oct 5 min read

Dispensing diaries

Martyn Howlett: “We can display so many aspects of our skillset within this role”

Domiciliary

02 Oct 7 min read

Portrait of a person wearing a black head covering and bright red blazer, standing indoors in front of a white decorative door

You had me at hospital

Jagdeep Kaur: “The world of optometry is bigger than just working in one setting”

Hospital optometry

02 Oct 6 min read

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Locum lessons

Protecting your finances against cancelled clinics

Locuming

02 Oct 3 mins

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Research

18 Aug

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AOP

03 Sep

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Moorfields Eye Hospital surgeon gives tips on staying safe during the solar eclipse

Patients

10 Aug 1

A toddler leans against a sofa holding a toy truck. One of his eyes is glowing with a white circle

An optometrist saved my life

“I knew straightaway that this was something that needed to be seen urgently”

Patients

20 Aug 5 min read

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07 Aug

Chosen for you

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Eye care everywhere

Assessing urgent eye conditions in Greater Manchester

On the High Street

01 Oct 8 min read

A clinical room in practice which has a chair that lays back and different coloured light masks for treatments

Practice team digest

Tailoring the dry eye conversation

Practice team

27 Sep 8 min read

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October/November 2026

The Flexibility matters edition

02 Oct

James Brawn

From optometry to medicine and back

Practitioner stories

06 Oct

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