Practitioner stories

City, University of London optometry undergraduates, Sadaf Khan and Iram Ahmed, share their experiences of a Vision Aid Overseas project in Africa after being awarded the 2019 Irvine Aitchison memorial bursary

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

Rosemary Shrager discusses her family history of glaucoma and why good vision is crucial to her role as a chef

Optometrist spotted that Megan Turner’s optic nerve was badly swollen and referred her to hospital

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

Newly-qualified optometrist, Nikki Sharma, discusses the benefits of the volk lens in the testing room