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Supporting IP in optometry

OT explores how recent changes in the profession and new training initiatives are shaping independent prescribing in England, Scotland, and Wales

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Optoversity Challenge returns for 2024

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The organisers of an event at Cardiff University to raise awareness of services for people with sight impairment are gathered together, some wearing RNIB branded t-shirts, and the Mayor in the centre of the group

Optometry students gain insight into RNIB services

An event organised by clinical tutors at Cardiff University raised awareness of services for people with sight impairment

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Palak wears blue medical scrubs and is seated in a clinic setting in front of a range of instruments including a slit lamp. Against one wall is the test chart

A to Optometry

Income protection and critical illness cover for locum optometrists

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Future gazing: what will optometry look like in five years’ time?

16 min read

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“Ophthalmology is one of the busiest specialisms in NHS hospitals”

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Supporting IP in optometry
12 min read
Income protection and critical illness cover for locum optometrists
5 min read
Future gazing: what will optometry look like in five years’ time?
16 min read

Practice team digest

Presbyopia in practice

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“I’ve enjoyed building rapport with my patients”

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CPD: the home stretch

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The cover story

Say yes

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A to Optometry

“I enjoyed it from the first day”

Deepali Poojara, second year at the University of Central Lancashire, on the work experience that shaped her future, blended learning, and the importance of routine

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The image shows one of the labs in ARU’s new Sensory Sciences Centre. The camera is focused on a slit lamp device set up on a table, with a blue clinical curtain in the background. Fading into the distance, at least six further tables are set up with devices

ARU opens Sensory Sciences Centre

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Optical Express shadowing programme to include IP

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Myopia and contact lens clinics as a pre-reg

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The workshop

Funding further optometry education

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A to Optometry

“I actually wanted to go into astronomy”

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Encountering unusual pathology as a Moorfields pre-reg

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Male student, Habeeb Rahman, wearing a navy suit with a burgundy tie and wearing glasses. He is leaning in to look through the eye piece of an optical instrument. Around his collar is a 100% Optical lanyard

A to Optometry

“The defining moment for me came unexpectedly”

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