Professional support

Demonstrating its Spectralis and Anterion platforms at 100% Optical, Heidelberg Engineering told OT how the pandemic has spurred the creation of more diagnostic hubs in ophthalmology

Optical organisations

Perspectives

The myopia challenge

AOP

“The job we do in our day-to-day life is to listen”

Kirsty, a Peer Support Line volunteer since the line launched in 2017, tells OT about how the pandemic helped open up conversations around mental health

5 min read

AOP

A system to describe OCT scans

Optical organisations

“The million-dollar question”: an insider’s guide to GOS negotiations

OT talks with the chair of the organisation responsible for negotiating the General Ophthalmic Services fee

8 min read

Health services

AOP calls for members’ views on the GOC’s Opticians Act call for evidence

The Association is asking members to share their thoughts on a range of topics included in the regulator’s call for evidence

AOP

CHEC at 100% Optical

Optometrists were able to have a go at capsulorhexis with forceps on CHEC’s stand during 100% Optical

Optical organisations

Focusing in: Optegra on adjusting over the past few years

OT spoke to the eye care provider about the effects of the pandemic and growing waiting lists for cataract surgery

Health services

Featured

“I am so privileged to volunteer for the Peer Support Line”

6 min read

AOP

In this section

We know that most practices cross-subsidise clinical care from the retail portion of the business, which raises in turn ethical questions and contributes to the false perception with many of the general public that optometry is a retail profession

OFNC chair, Gordon Ilett, on the challenges surrounding ongoing efforts to negotiate appropriate Government funding of primary eye care