Health services

Optometrist Rupesh Bagdai reflects on a service that provides eye care to the homeless, asylum seekers and other hard to reach groups

Optometrists will be involved in a screening programme that aims to detect a major risk factor for ischaemic stroke

The panel will reflect on universal entitlement to free eye care and the performance of community optometry before and after the pandemic

The Independent Prescribing Optometry Service has shown promising results after its introduction one day after lockdown

OT  investigates the impact of the pandemic on optometrists in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales – and asks how each nation is charting a path forward

Follow-up care can be delivered to patients closer to home by community optometrists, a new report states

An update on Northern Ireland’s 10-year plan has emphasised the role of optometrists in easing pressure on the hospital eye service

What constitutes a good referral or a good reason not to refer? Dr Scott Mackie explores his experience of the realities and pitfalls

The agreement will enable practices to refer patients to Optegra for cataracts

Sheffield Teaching Hospital ophthalmologist, Fahd Quhill, on the value optometrists bring to his medical retina and diabetes clinic