Health services

AOP clinical director, Dr Peter Hampson, identified the possibilities for “exciting new clinical opportunities” for optometry, but also highlighted areas of the plans to monitor closely

An update on the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine Review has shed light on pay disparities within the NHS

NHS workers have been discouraged from stockpiling medicines in a letter describing plans for the “unlikely scenario” of an EU exit without agreement

RNIB has welcomed the Government’s Tobacco Control Plan

OT  speaks to optometrist and LOCSU optical lead, Dharmesh Patel, about the importance of devolving health and social care spending in Greater Manchester

A membership organisation for private ophthalmologists has been fined for breaches to competition law, including price setting

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) believes the government may be considering taxing PIP and urges them against it