Health services

The roll-out of comprehensive risk stratified care utilising the skill mix of hospital and community optometrists remains difficult to achieve, Melanie Hingorani tells OT 

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

Hospital optometrists share their insight on what the job involves

Following in the footsteps of his optometrist father, Professor Jonathan Jackson entered the profession in 1981. Just two years later, Mr Jackson became the first optometrist to be formally appointed in the hospital setting in Northern Ireland. He shares his experiences with OT 

County Durham practitioners talk with OT  about the benefits that Minor Eye Care Services can provide to patients, practitioners and optical practices

An unlikely eye health partnership that signposts elderly, often isolated, patients for further support has helped thousands. OT  finds out more

Nick Howard explains that dry eye should no longer be viewed by the profession as a “minor nuisance” in order to improve patient care

Dry eye may be something of a ‘catch all’ term, but this has not stopped important work, explains Professor James Wolffsohn

Robbie Turner, of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, tells OT  that pharmacists have “turned a corner” in how the public views his profession

OT  finds out how the Aravind Eye Hospital in Tamil Nadu makes the most of limited resources to ensure that no patient is ever turned away