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Marsha de Cordova speaks at a parliamentary event celebrating a new RNIB training programme to provide emotional support at the point of diagnosis

New RNIB training launched at parliament

Marsha de Cordova MP hosted a parliamentary event celebrating a new RNIB training programme to provide emotional support at the point of diagnosis

Patients

18 Jun

Richard Osman and Keith Valentine pose with signs for Vis-Ability and Change sight change lives messages in front of FIght for Sight banners

Vis-Ability 2026 explores technology, employment and healthcare

Patients

16 Jun

SeeAbility's Guinness World Records title mural is created by Tower Bridge on a cloudy day

SeeAbilty breaks Guiness World Record to highlight children with SEND missing out on eye care

Practitioner stories

04 Jun

Benji sits to the left observing medical students practising an eye test. Three students are gathered around the slit lamp with a volunteer patient

Volunteers’ Week: “I think there are many ways we can use our skills to volunteer”

Practitioner stories

02 Jun 7 min read

Professor Cecilia Fenerty

Professor Cecilia Fenerty appointed chair of trustees for Glaucoma UK

Practitioner stories

01 Jun

Visually impaired businesswoman using smartphone and earphones during business meeting

Recruitment drive to tackle Access to Work backlog announced by Government

Government and regulation

28 May

Seven people stand together outside of a building with a large watercolour style world map painted on the side. The team are wearing t-shirts branded with Hoya, London Squint Clinic, Rawlings Opticians & Hearing Care, and Eyespace

Eyespace supports Guatemala outreach mission

Practitioner stories

22 May

Young girl with glasses smiling in a classroom setting

SEND reform gaps and digital inaccessibility in transport highlighted by RNIB after King’s Speech

Government and regulation

18 May

A large group gather around a car parked in front of a Haine & Smith practice. The group are dressed in walking and hiking clothes and hold the Ukraine flag. The car has stickers marking it as a humanitarian vehicle, and a man in the centre holds up a paper stating that this is Car 22

Practice walking challenge raises nearly £2K for Ukraine

Practitioner stories

18 May

White stick with male shoes in the background

Blind and partially sighted people still facing “structural barriers and persistent misconceptions,” APPG says

Government and regulation

13 May

Victoria Smurfit and RNIB staff outside the charity’s headquarters on a sunny day

RNIB announces actor Victoria Smurfit as new president

Patients

13 May

An optometrist in dark blue scrubs peers through a viewfinder lens on an optical device. A child is sitting on his mother’s lap on the other side, with his chin on the rest and a light shining in his eye

Optometrists top urgent referrals for retinoblastoma, CHECT finds

On the High Street

13 May

The image focuses on two hands, holding and selecting items on a smart phone. The person, who is not visible in the image, is lying down on a sofa

Glaucoma UK Helpline receives accreditation

Patients

13 May

Close-up of a laboratory procedure being performed under a microscope, with a researcher wearing blue gloves using tweezers and fine tools to handle a sample in a petri dish on a brightly lit workstation

Moorfields Eye Charity expands support for PhDs

Research

11 May

Two people entering a polling station to vote

Blind journalist unable to vote independently in local elections

Government and regulation

08 May

Hannah Telfer, chief executive of Vision Care, Jo Osborne, corporate social responsibility lead at Specsavers, and Megan Holmes, education and engagement manager at Vision Care

Specsavers and Vision Care homelessness partnership nominated for charity award

Practice team

07 May

SightCare Live platforms Childhood Eye Cancer Trust

Patients

07 May

Woman in red sari sewing

Global vision correction in garment workers would boost sector by $27 billion a year

Patients

06 May 1

Professor Pouya Alaghband and Peter Holton of Glaucoma UK

Glaucoma UK Excellence in Glaucoma Care Award 2026 winners announced

Hospital optometry

24 Apr

The team who volunteered in Uganda posing for a photograph

Opinion

Robina Sharif: “It reminded me that, at its heart, optometry isn’t about technology, it’s about people”

Practitioner stories

22 Apr

Josie wears athletic attire and a Macmillan fundraising running top. She is photographed in a sunny location, with a landscape stretching out behind her

On your marks: running the London Marathon

Health and wellbeing

21 Apr 5 min read

Clarke and Alistair stand with an arm around each other near the finish of Brighton Marathon. Clarke wears blue and yellow running attire, branded Fight for Sight, and holds a medal between them. Alistair wears a neon pink Richard Whitehead Foundation running top

Blind artist achieved world-first marathon using smart eyewear

Patients

16 Apr

A man wearing a black beanie and grey sweatshirt sits indoors, gently touching around his eyes as if adjusting or reacting to his vision. A staff member in a black T-shirt with an event lanyard stands beside him, suggesting a vision care or eye clinic setting

OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation runs free eye clinic for homeless population in Manchester

On the High Street

13 Apr 5 min read

Clarke Reynolds

Blind artist to attempt world-first marathon wearing smart eyewear

Practitioner stories

10 Apr

An infant sitting in a pushchair looks at the camera. The camera flash reflects red in one eye, and white in the other, a sign of potential retinoblastoma

CHECT calls on practices to join in World Retinoblastoma Awareness Week

On the High Street

08 Apr

A group of 22 walkers pose in London at night. They are dressed for the cold weather with Vision Care branded t-shirts over the top pose together wearing glow-in-the-dark glasses

More than £9K raised for Vision Care through London Walk

Practitioner stories

07 Apr

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In pictures: Deafblind UK chair receives OBE from HRH Princess Anne at Windsor Castle

Practitioner stories

07 Apr

A group of practice team staff are surrounding an exercise bike inside an optometry practice

Independent optometry practice in 352-mile cyclothon for Cancer Research UK

On the High Street

30 Mar 1

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A spectacle lens balances on its edge, in the shadow is a ring of dots. The background of the image is orange and white

Hoya releases clinical trial data for Miyosmart iQ

Products

07 May 5 min read

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How I got here

Nick Rumney’s limitless ambition for optometry

Career development

29 Mar 18 min read 22 mins

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Clarke and Alistair stand with an arm around each other near the finish of Brighton Marathon. Clarke wears blue and yellow running attire, branded Fight for Sight, and holds a medal between them. Alistair wears a neon pink Richard Whitehead Foundation running top

Blind artist achieved world-first marathon using smart eyewear

Patients

16 Apr

A group of eight people stand in a line outside the UK Parliament, with Big Ben visible behind them under a grey sky. Each person holds a white mobility cane, facing forward on a paved walkway beside a fenced grassy area. The scene suggests a coordinated public action or awareness event related to visual impairment

RNIB delivers ‘largest ever’ petition to Department of Health and Social Care

Patients

26 Mar

Josie wears athletic attire and a Macmillan fundraising running top. She is photographed in a sunny location, with a landscape stretching out behind her

On your marks: running the London Marathon

Health and wellbeing

21 Apr 5 min read

A man wearing a black beanie and grey sweatshirt sits indoors, gently touching around his eyes as if adjusting or reacting to his vision. A staff member in a black T-shirt with an event lanyard stands beside him, suggesting a vision care or eye clinic setting

OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation runs free eye clinic for homeless population in Manchester

On the High Street

13 Apr 5 min read

A large group gather around a car parked in front of a Haine & Smith practice. The group are dressed in walking and hiking clothes and hold the Ukraine flag. The car has stickers marking it as a humanitarian vehicle, and a man in the centre holds up a paper stating that this is Car 22

Practice walking challenge raises nearly £2K for Ukraine

Practitioner stories

18 May

Chosen for you

A close up of the view finder of a piece of optical equipment in a consulting room

Frustration over plans for digitising referrals without “fully costed plan for a national roll-out”

AOP

09 Jun 3

Emma Spofforth and Nizz Sabir sitting on an sofa holding the AOP chairman medal

Leadership, continuity and change: AOP chairman handover

AOP

08 Jun 7 min read

Faayza is wearing a shirt and sits at a table with a bunch of flowers

How I got here

“I know how frustrating it can be when you don’t feel heard”

Career development

05 Jun 8 min read 8 mins

The audience at the HG Roadshow event at Old Windsor

Three insights from the HG Roadshow event at Old Windsor

Career development

11 Jun 5 min read