Practitioner stories
Optometrists, dispensing opticians and eye care professionals from across optics share their stories
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Lead optometrist at Banks Optometrists, Uma Patel, and patient Carol Barnet tell OT about a life-saving referral
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Professor Arnold Wilkins highlights how fluorescent lighting could be causing eye-strain and headaches in schools and offices
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Lead optometrist at Banks Optometrists in Brixton, London, Uma Patel, tells OT about how providing minor eye conditions services has improved the practice’s relationship with other healthcare professionals
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Specialist optometrist, Elizabeth Kime, advocates a funded referral refinement scheme for all non-urgent referrals to ophthalmology, saving NHS resources
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Optometrist at Albert Road Opticians, Deepak Oberai, and his patient, Donald Broughton, discuss a referral to have shrapnel removed from his eye
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Victoria Smith has been running a clinic in Sheffield once a month since April
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Locum optometrist at Specsavers, Zeeshan Khalid (pictured), and mother of 10-year-old patient Eve (pictured), Penny Wilson, discuss a referral that led to the identification of a brain tumour
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Understanding the issues being considered by the UK’s medical advisory panel on driving and visual disorders
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Medical professionals on the frontline need to help older drivers to make informed personal decisions, writes IAM Roadsmart's Neil Greig