Releasing the second episode of The OT Podcast, we delve into the career of Scottish IP optometrist and practice owner, Ian Cameron. During the 45-minute discussion, Cameron shares insight into his passion for learning, professional variety and knowledge sharing. By his own admission, Cameron thrives on living a little bit outside of his comfort zone, but has also learnt over the years that “you can’t have all four or five burners on a gas cooker running at maximum all of the time.” He has become much better at saying no to things over the years as a result. Cameron has been managing the award-winning Cameron Optometry in Edinburgh since 2011, when he took over the family business from his father. In 2022 the practice joined the Hakim Group.
Play episode two: The Ian Cameron episode
OT will release a new episode of The OT Podcast bimonthly, with episode three scheduled for release in March. You can listen to The OT Podcast on our website, or via all the main podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Castbox. Remember to subscribe to The OT Podcast to ensure you never miss an episode. Be sure to catch-up and listen to episode one if you have not done so already – The Professor Nicola Logan episode: a deep dive into myopia management, what it means for practitioners, and the evidence base behind it.
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DavidB16 February 2023
Great podcast from an optometric visionary. It shows what optometry can do when it's given the right framework to practice in. It was Ian's dad Donald, who when AOP Chair, travelled around the country with his question for the profession "A free MRI with every GOS sight test?" emploring practitioners to look at the implications of simply adding more and more investigations to a NHS sight test without considering the business consequences. This was over 25 years ago and what's changed in England?
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Nicholas Rumney02 February 2023
Excellent discussion. Loved the bit about attitude weighs heavier than skills. skills can be taught but a run away when things get tough attitude is very difficult to manage in a multi-disciplinary specialist practice. The profession owes a huge debt to Donald Cameron for accelerating professional advancement both in IP (where I work with him at the GOC) and by being inclusive of all practitioners in the new Scottish contract. One of the worst aspects of the terrible lowest common denominator of the English GOS is that it sets practitioners against each other; independent against multiple models, HES not believing things can be done in community practice and even defence and professional bodies being compromised in how much they have to tow a middle of the road line for fear of losing members. Fundamentally ALL optometrists can step up to the plate and deliver. GOS makes it too easy to fail and too hard to deliver beyond that rubbish contract. What we can do in primary care; IP, glaucoma, paediatric is not rocket science and its not unique to geographic areas, Until its national across England the NHS is wasting money hand over fist, was it ever thus.
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