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OT asks...

What is your top tip for dealing with challenges or stressful situations at work?

Six contributors to OT’s Practice resilience edition share their wisdom

On the High Street

11 Jun 5 min read

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

Davina Dosanjh outside of Richard Petrie Optometrists

The cover story

Business class

Business and practice management

05 Jun 12 min read

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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

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Locum lessons

Where to go for help when practices don’t pay

Locuming

05 Jun 4 mins

A young woman in an optician’s shop smiles as she reaches toward a wall display of glasses frames, while another woman stands slightly out of focus nearby, watching. Bright overhead lighting and a clean, modern interior create a welcoming retail environment

Pre-reg focus

Looking ahead to the OSCEs as a pre-reg optometrist

Students and pre-regs

05 Jun 2 mins

A woman in middle age has her chin on the rest of a slit lamp device for an eye test. On the right-hand side, the optometrist in blue scrubs is controlling the device to perform the test

OFNC survey explores unfunded NHS work

NHS and health

02 Jun 1

Specsavers staff at Chipping Norton practice opening with Gerald Cooper

Specsavers opens in Chipping Norton

On the High Street

01 Jun 1

Annabelle Stephenson standing at a desk with leaflets on

Raising awareness of a career within optics

On the High Street

20 May

Shafi Ahmed, Shazu Miah and Paul Robinson in high visibility jackets with a spade at the beginning of Kidderminster expansion Specsavers project

£7m expansion of Specsavers Vision Labs facility begins

Business and practice management

15 May 1

Deepali Poojara sitting at a desk smiling at the camera

Deepali Poojara: “You never know who’s going to come through the door”

Students and pre-regs

13 May

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Swimming, mentorship, walking, and slowing down: actions for wellbeing

Health and wellbeing

11 May 5 min read

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

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Specsavers confirms rollout of national recycling initiative

On the High Street

30 Apr 1

A male clinician wearing scrubs and glasses laughs

Early career digest

Developing good habits as an early career optometrist

Career development

27 Apr 7 min read

A patient receives an eye test

Early career digest

Binocular vision tips for newly qualified optometrists

Career development

26 Apr 6 min read

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OT asks...

What is the most important non-clinical skill in optometry practice?

On the High Street

23 Apr

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Life as a locum

Keeping up with technology and prioritising peer support as a locum optometrist

Locuming

10 Apr 7 min read 7 mins

A gold piggy bank sits on a table

Vision Express staff to benefit from Stream Workplace Finance partnership

On the High Street

03 Apr

Amar Aslam on stage collecting his awards at the Retal Week Awards

Boots Opticians optometrist receives accolade at Retail Week Awards

Practitioner stories

02 Apr

Young female optometrist smiling as she looks through a slit lamp microscope to examine a male patient’s eyes in a softly lit clinic room, with a blurred owl picture on the wall in the background

Pre-reg focus

Adapting to technology as an optometry pre-reg

Students and pre-regs

31 Mar 4 mins

Close up of Priya on a Zeiss background

How I got here

Pivoting to industry as a community optometrist

Career development

30 Mar 6 min read 6 mins

A healthcare professional leans in to examine an elderly man’s eye using a handheld ophthalmoscope as the man sits in an armchair at home, with soft daylight and living room furnishings in the background

Decoding domiciliary

“It’s more of an informal conversation with patients when you see them at home”

Domiciliary

30 Mar

The Specsavers team at the Retail Awards

Specsavers wins sustainability award for lens manufacturing innovation

On the High Street

27 Mar

A woman fills in a clipboard on a wooden desk. She wears a beige work jacket over a denim shirt. The camera is focused on her head and her face is not visible

ECPs encouraged to complete Voice of the Eye Care Provider Survey

Practitioner stories

25 Mar

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

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AOP

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Boots Opticians optometrist receives accolade at Retail Week Awards

Practitioner stories

02 Apr

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

Davina Dosanjh outside of Richard Petrie Optometrists

The cover story

Business class

Business and practice management

05 Jun 12 min read

Two illustrated hands reaching toward a small globe with a yellow heart floating above on a green background.

Specsavers confirms rollout of national recycling initiative

On the High Street

30 Apr 1

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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