Practice team

Heather poses against a wall with a black-and-white mural of the classic image of Frankenstein’s monster. Heather wears black jeans, patent leather brogues, a bright green jumper and red tartan scarf, and vivid red glasses

Behind the scenes with Frankenstein

Contact lens technician, Heather Muir, ensured safe insertion and removal of contact lenses used on the UK set of the new retelling of the classic

Practice team

04 Nov

100% Optical

A crowd seated in the audience of the Main Stage at 100% Optical listening to a lecture

First wave of education revealed for 100% Optical 2026

Practice team

14 Oct

Jayne wears a green top with a name badge and black glasses with orange and yellow geometric details. She stands in front of a wall with a watercolour skyline

Dream team

A peek inside... Simon Berry Optometrists

Practice team

03 Oct

A man tries on blue framed spectacles in an optometry practice

Asked and answered

Dispensing for early presbyopes

Practice team

03 Oct 3 mins

Illustration of an eye with a person holding a contact lens

Practice team digest

Keeping it personal

Practice team

29 Sep 5 min read

A woman selects eyewear from a display in an optometry practice

Practice Team Day 2025: communication, common dilemmas, and presbyopia

Practice team

25 Sep

Kirsteen Newman

Specsavers sees enrolment on DO apprenticeship jump

Practice team

28 Aug

Sheena wears a yellow floral blouse and smart trousers and sits at a garden table

Seiko Optical UK launches wellbeing programme for optical teams

Practice team

19 Aug 1

Pauline Mbire

Dream team

A peek inside... Hynes Optometrists

Practice team

01 Aug

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Practice team digest

How to get the whole practice team involved in setting up a low vision offering

Practice team

22 Jun 6 min read

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Practice team digest

Contact lens purchasing

Practice team

21 Jun 6 min read 1

A dispensing optician leans down to speak with a child patient who is trying on a pair of spectacles

Asked and answered

Spectacles for children

Practice team

05 Jun

Chris, wearing a floral black and white top and frames in black and orange, stands in the practice doorway

Dream team

A peek inside... Respectacle Company

Practice team

05 Jun

Heather, wearing blue surgical gloves and a parka, and actor, Steven Miller, pose in a dressing room

Eye care on location: fitting contact lenses on set

Practice team

05 Jun

Chibogu wears a formal black dress with bright pink sandal heels. She stands beneath a white steel archway decked in trailing green vines and red and pink roses. Behind her is the beautiful crystal ocean and boats in a bay

Dream team

A peek inside... Willetts & Doig Optometrists

Practice team

04 Apr 5 min read

The practice team at Jones and Co are stood in a line inside a room, all smiling

Practice team digest

Making the dispensing experience special

Practice team

24 Mar 8 min read

A female driver smiles wearing sunglasses in a convertible

Practice team digest

The style clinic

Practice team

23 Mar

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Practice team digest

Growing your contact lens database

Practice team

22 Mar 7 min read

Claire Vernon and Beth Newbould

Leightons pilots Empathic Consulting Course for DOs

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13 Feb

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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

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02 Oct

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Kirsteen Newman

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28 Aug

100% Optical

A crowd seated in the audience of the Main Stage at 100% Optical listening to a lecture

First wave of education revealed for 100% Optical 2026

Practice team

14 Oct

Heather poses against a wall with a black-and-white mural of the classic image of Frankenstein’s monster. Heather wears black jeans, patent leather brogues, a bright green jumper and red tartan scarf, and vivid red glasses

Behind the scenes with Frankenstein

Practice team

04 Nov

Chosen for you

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