Health services

Optometrist David Barker tells OT  what the Big Picture remote referral system has meant for staff and patients at Rawlings Opticians

From better technology to equal access to sight tests, optometrists share seven changes they would like to see in NHS England

OT  learns how providing sight tests and spectacles to the homeless is helping to change lives in Hampshire and Dorset

Clinical scientist and optometrist at the Centre for Ocular Research and Education (CORE), Karen Walsh, tells OT  about how the research centre worked with its pharmaceutical colleagues at the University of Waterloo to deliver education to both professions in one place.

AOP councillors, Kevin Wallace, Nadeen Joseph and Brian McKeown discuss how optometrists play a key role in reducing the pressure on secondary care in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

OT  finds out how joint working takes place in practice, in research and in education

OT  finds out how joint working takes place at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital’s NHS community eye clinics

How a low vision scheme run by Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group is helping to turn around the lives of older patients

Principal optometrist in urgent care and contact lenses at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Nathanael Anguige, discusses the benefits that the hospital’s urgent care clinics bring patients and practitioners

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