Practitioner stories

Optometrist and director at Specsavers Opticians Leigh, Rumit Patel, and Kelly Morris, mum to eight-year-old Hollie Creighton (pictured), discuss how an emergency appointment for a suspected lazy eye led to the detection of end-stage papilloedema

Independent prescribing optometrist, Dr John Gurney, and patient Tom Watters discuss the diagnosis and treatment of a retinal detachment

Optometrist Faheem Sarfraz, from Paul Cheetham Eyecare, and patient Syed Shah discuss a treatment for uveitis during lockdown

Optometrist Sheena Tanna-Shah has established a support network to help practitioners through the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19

The patient mailed the pellet back to his brother over half a century after the two made a pact not to tell their parents about a BB gun accident

Optometrist at the Lancashire-based Broadhurst Optometrists, Jennifer Smith, and her patient June Williams, discuss how a routine check-up unveiled a choroidal melanoma

Professor Arnold Wilkins highlights how fluorescent lighting could be causing eye-strain and headaches in schools and offices

Specialist optometrist, Elizabeth Kime, advocates a funded referral refinement scheme for all non-urgent referrals to ophthalmology, saving NHS resources

City, University of London’s Professor Christopher Tyler talks with OT  about his research suggesting Leonardo da Vinci had an eye misalignment

Drew Cochrane tells OT  how golf transformed his outlook