Business management

OT  has spoken to two independent practices that have looked outside of optics to diversify their healthcare offering for the benefit of the business and patients

Optometrist and Lancashire & Morecambe Bay LOC member, Timothy Bagot, shares insight into the delivery of a MECS service in his local area that was launched three years ago

Devon LOC’s chair, Max Halford, and its business manager Jonathan Drew, share advice for practices interested in offering enhanced services

Head of audiology at Duncan and Todd Group, Alex Higgins, shares advice on introducing optical patients to hearing care as part of their recall screenings

OT  explores the models of audiology that are available to independent opticians to find out the benefits and drawbacks that can be associated with them

OT  poses a monthly scenario from a practitioner. This month, we look at introducing hearing care in independent practices with Dominic Watson, director of Myers La Roche and Audiology Business Central and author of Sonic Boom and Bust – the danger of separation from ‘The Heard’

Ophthalmic partner of four Specsavers stores in the South West of England, Dr Josie Forte, shares insight into introducing an app-based clinic management tool in practice

OT  speaks to optometrists Claire Slade and Peter Hampson about how AI could emerge in optics in the coming years

OT  poses a monthly scenario from a practitioner. This month, we look at practice insurance with Paul Short, head of commercial development at Lloyd & Whyte

Optometrist and head of professional affairs at Alcon, Jonathon Bench, shares insight into what practices can do to support patients trialling contact lenses