Health services

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

The AOP opposed NHS Digital’s proposal to stop publishing workforce and activity data

A sterile headscarf is now available to staff working in the operating theatres of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton

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

Statistics that would no longer be published under the plan include the number of NHS-funded sight tests carried out each year and the number of ophthalmic practitioners

The hospital has been recognised for its healthcare outcomes

Mark Waine was perplexed at the lack of feedback when he moved from Australia to practise as an optometrist in the UK. He speaks to OT 

The eye hospital has been nominated in the ‘Clinical services – healthcare outcomes’ category

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