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A man stands in a sunny garden holding a tartan scarf above his head beside a large orange, turtle-like garden sculpture with cartoon eyes, horns and pointed legs. Smaller colourful sculpted figures stand nearby among the flowers and greenery

Visually impaired man’s Highland cow design to be made into official Lego set

Stewart Lamb Cromar’s Highland Hike, featuring Flora the Highland cow, has won the Lego Ideas Rebuilding Outdoor Adventures challenge

Patients

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A photograph from the back seat of a car showing a driver wearing glasses and a knitted hat

Visual problems among most common conditions recorded with the DVLA, FOI data finds

Patients

10 Sep

A children making a picture of the Gruffalo

Charity to launch accessible edition of Gruffalo Granny on publication day

Patients

04 Sep

People pet a small brown sheep

Care of two pet sheep entrusted to RNIB in will

Patients

04 Sep

A group of people gather outside of the new SpaMedica facility

SpaMedica opens cataract centre in Scotland

Patients

28 Aug

A toddler leans against a sofa holding a toy truck. One of his eyes is glowing with a white circle

An optometrist saved my life

“I knew straightaway that this was something that needed to be seen urgently”

Patients

20 Aug 5 min read

Big Issue vendor in Covent Garden Market in London holds up a special edition of The Big Issue, advertising the Charity VIP scheme

Specsavers expands homelessness eye care scheme nationally

Patients

13 Aug

Optometrist Ben Armstrong carrying out a vision check with a young lady at Revvv it Up festival

Community optometrist and RNIB Northern Ireland make two hospital referrals at local festival

Patients

13 Aug

A young girl on a swingset. She is wearing glasses with a pink rim

Survey explores parental understanding of myopia

Patients

13 Aug

A woman smiles while wearing solar eclipse glasses

Moorfields Eye Hospital surgeon gives tips on staying safe during the solar eclipse

Patients

10 Aug 1

Teenage girl sits in a car, looking into her phone to check her contact lens in her irritated eye

IP and me

Irritation and foreign body sensation in a contact lens patient

Patients

07 Aug

A young woman poses with her hand in her shoulder-length dark hair. A light blue-white knitted jumper slips off of one shoulder for an effect that is care-free. Behind her is a blue and white circle design

Acuvue partners with Clinique

Patients

31 Jul

RNIB

RNIB receives three medals at RHS Sandringham Flower Show

Patients

30 Jul

Hannah Telfer, left, Alex McIntyre MP, and Nikhil Sonpal stand around a Vision Care banner

Vision Care Mobile Vision Service hosts MP visit

Patients

30 Jul

Catherine L’Estrange, who has Bardet Biedl Syndrome, with her brother after receiving gene therapy

11-year-old becomes first UK patient to receive novel gene therapy for rare cause of vision loss

Patients

28 Jul

A group of female friends are pictured together

Dry Eye Awareness Month: “You can genuinely transform someone’s quality of life”

Patients

23 Jul 9 min read

RNIB trustees: Andrew McCracken, Graham Colbert, Barry Hoffman, Nigel Fletcher and Zayna Ali

RNIB appoints five trustees to board

Patients

14 Jul

A man in a wheelchair uses a calculator and laptop while seated at a desk

RNIB responds to review that finds PIP payments are “not fit for purpose”

Patients

13 Jul

An older man is sat at a table using a laptop. He has a cup of coffee beside him and is using his finger to follow something on the screen. He wears glasses

Glaucoma UK launches landmark national patient survey

Patients

08 Jul

An older man instills eye drops in his eye

Glaucoma Awareness Week 2026: “We only have one pair of eyes, so we need to look after them”

Patients

06 Jul 6 min read

A group of campaigners wearing World Sight Day t-shirts

World Sight Day campaign 2026 launched

Patients

01 Jul

Young female adult sitting at equipment with head in rest having her sight tested

Public confidence in eye care rises, but inequalities persist, GOC reports

Patients

01 Jul

Harper poses outside of a hospital

An optometrist saved my life

“We will always be grateful that Charlotte recognised the signs when she did”

Patients

26 Jun 5 min read 1

Vision Care Mobile Vision Service van

Vision Care celebrates reaching 150 patients through its Mobile Vision Service

Patients

25 Jun

Marina Ahmad AM, centre, with Grace McGill and SeeAbility colleagues during the charity's successful Guinness World Record Attempt at Potter's Fields in May 2026

London Assembly member calls for South East London optical practices to join the Easy Eye Care pathway

Patients

24 Jun

A young woman is applying eye drops at home

WCO and Alcon update dry eye resource

Patients

19 Jun

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Tadalafil use associated with higher risk of glaucoma

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18 Aug

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