Cataracts

The photograph shows half of Shakul’s face. Shakul has vitiligo, wears a cobalt blue top and is photographed against a pale blue background. Shakul’s eyes are an icy, electric blue

Winners of WSD photo competition 2025 revealed

The IAPB has also created a digital exhibition to celebrate 10 years of the annual competition

Patients

13 Nov

Luke Charters MP with the Optegra team

MPs visit Optegra facilities

NHS and health

31 Oct

David Moulsdale, founder and CEO of Optical Express, and Nicholas Ridley

Optical Express opens new flagship eye hospital

Hospital optometry

23 Oct 5 min read

Ophthalmologist in blue scrubs performs cataract surgery on a patient who is laying down

Programme to support eye care shift from hospital to community to begin in November

NHS and health

14 Oct

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Research recap: AI, cataract survey and short-sightedness

Research

10 Oct

Ankur Trivedi

The cover story

The trailblazers

NHS and health

03 Oct 10 min read

Montage vector illustration composed from randomly placed paper cut out speech bubbles and hand made textures and doodles

A conversation about...

Improving primary and secondary care relationships

NHS and health

03 Oct 11 min read

Pars plana vitrectomy performed after parasite spotted “moving sluggishly” in patient’s eye

Research

28 Aug

MP Pam Cox meets the Optegra Colchester team

Colchester MP visits Optegra NHS cataract clinic

Hospital optometry

18 Aug

An optometrist and patient

In focus

A light in the dark

NHS and health

01 Aug 13 min read

A female clinician wearing scrubs approaches a patient in a waiting room

NHS publishes new data on hospital waiting times and health inequalities

NHS and health

24 Jul

Esther, 26, receiving an eye screening at an Orbis supported eye hospital in Kigali, Rwanda

Flying Eye Hospital lands in Rwanda

Hospital optometry

24 Jul

A conference audience watches a presentation

British Society for Refractive Surgery conference: from robot-assisted surgery to AI for lens sizing

Career development

07 Jun

100% Optical

Middle aged woman with grey hair applying eye drops whilst suffering from cataract and glaucoma

Five practitioners on the top tools they would like to see to improve glaucoma care

Patients

05 Jun

Michael Toma, Huma Stone, James Bacon, Fariha Shafi

Newmedica invests £3m in new facility

NHS and health

03 Jun

Two colleagues discuss graphs printed on sheets of paper

A snapshot of LOC activity across England

On the High Street

22 May 8 min read

Specsavers staff

“We need policymakers to realise how important glaucoma is”

Patients

14 May

A close-up of a person positioned on the slit lamp

AOP responds to Sunday Times investigation into independent cataract surgery providers

AOP

25 Apr 3

Roshni is stood in front of the Stoneygate Eye Hospital sign indoors

You had me at hospital

“It amazes me that you can transplant somebody else’s eye”

Hospital optometry

04 Apr 6 min read

Elderly Asian woman covering her eye with eye shield after eye cataract

IP and me

Irritable eyes after cataract surgery

Patients

04 Apr 6 min read 1

The hands of an older driver are shown steering the wheel of a car

In focus

Navigating vision and driving conversations

Government and regulation

04 Apr 12 min read 1

The view of a blue sea from out of a plane window

Picking up the mantle for the only public ophthalmologist in Belize

Locuming

02 Apr 5 min read 1

On a warm yellow background is an illustration of a globe. The outline is a fine black outline, but the globe itself is blue and green. Black doodle stars and dots surround the image

Optometry's fundamental importance in global health

Government and regulation

20 Mar 6 min read

Patient laying down and wearing a mask ahead of eye surgery

Labour MP raises concern over effect of independent sector provision of cataract surgery

Government and regulation

19 Mar

Alastair Stuart shakes hands with patient Maria Walmsey

Optegra pilots new approach to cataract treatment

Patients

17 Mar

100% Optical

An elderly woman is having an eye patch added to her eye after surgery

What to include in referrals for common ocular conditions

Patients

10 Mar

A clinician holds an ipad and talks to a patient

Optometry’s life-saving role in identifying the signs of Marfan syndrome

Patients

26 Feb 7 min read 1

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Sam Baird, Paula Beattie, Robbie Butler, Andy Allen

Northern Ireland to reinstate automatic access to free sight tests for most Universal Credit recipients

Government and regulation

22 Sep

A woman instills an eye drop in the eye of a boy

MHRA approves low-dose atropine eye drops for slowing myopia progression

Government and regulation

13 Nov

Red eye, front view

Consultation into extending medicine responsibilities for optometrists launched by DHSC

Government and regulation

04 Sep 1

Carina Hummel

25 years at Specsavers: from trainee dispensing optician to managing director of optics

Career development

08 Sep 10 min read

An Optegra hospital

EssilorLuxottica completes Optegra acquisition

On the High Street

02 Oct

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Pars plana vitrectomy performed after parasite spotted “moving sluggishly” in patient’s eye

Research

28 Aug

Ankur Trivedi

The cover story

The trailblazers

NHS and health

03 Oct 10 min read

Ophthalmologist in blue scrubs performs cataract surgery on a patient who is laying down

Programme to support eye care shift from hospital to community to begin in November

NHS and health

14 Oct

Montage vector illustration composed from randomly placed paper cut out speech bubbles and hand made textures and doodles

A conversation about...

Improving primary and secondary care relationships

NHS and health

03 Oct 11 min read

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A woman instills an eye drop in the eye of a boy

MHRA approves low-dose atropine eye drops for slowing myopia progression

Government and regulation

13 Nov

A toddler smiles while playing with coloured blocks that slide along a wire

An improved vision test for toddlers

Research

05 Nov

100% Optical

Two people look through a table of frames at an exhibition stand

Exhibitor list released for 100% Optical 2026

Products

03 Nov

MP Shockat Adam sits down whilst having a eye examination at a Vision Care clinic

Optometrist turned MP visits Vision Care clinic on World Homeless Day

Patients

06 Nov