Practitioner stories

Understanding the issues being considered by the UK’s medical advisory panel on driving and visual disorders

Medical professionals on the frontline need to help older drivers to make informed personal decisions, writes IAM Roadsmart's Neil Greig

Optometrist at Vision Express in Hartlepool, Matthew Gee-Smith, and patient Sandra Gleeson, discuss how mixing up numbers at bingo led to a referral

Why we need to capture the opportunity of keeping presbyopes in contact lenses, writes Ian Pyzer

Optometrist at Stokeld & Stephens Opticians, Robert Stokeld, and his patient William Eagling discuss how temporary blurring of vision led to a referral

For a fulfilling career, Diba Choudhury has not been afraid to face up to knowledge gaps – and go back to her university textbooks

Director and optometrist at Eyetech Opticians, Adrian Springett (pictured), and mother of nine-year-old Fletcher (pictured), Miranda Earley, discuss how a routine sight test led to the detection of a brain tumour

Optometrist at Carolyn Parker Optometrists, which is part of the Hakim Group, Katie Devey, and her patient, Jo Stokes, discuss a last minute sight test before going on holiday

The 65-year-old Shropshire resident wants more people to be aware of the dangers of exposing contact lenses to water after his experience

“When I removed the patch and looked at the eye in the mirror, my heart sank. I felt like something from the exorcist was looking back at me”