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Category: Vision News

High public trust in optometry and eyecare

High levels of public trust in optometry supports extended services closer to home

Potential eye health damage from inflation

1 in 5 Brits (22%) have postponed or cancelled a sight test in the past year

Glaucoma week is approaching, proving Optometry’s Importance

A demonstration of the importance of community optometry

Special Schools- Free Sight test provision

Funded Special School Sight Test, ABDO’s response

102 yrs young and seeing well

Ruby Russell, 102 had cataracts removed at Newmedica Oxfordshire

First patients at Optegra in Brighton

Andrea Williams, 76, from Crawley, was delighted to be one of the first patients

New Optegra Clinic in Brighton

A brand-new eye clinic has opened in Brighton, offering easy access to NHS cataract eye surgery for residents

One family is keeping up its Optical Traditions

Izzy Jones, 22, has completed her pre-registration year in her home practice of Runcorn,

How community optometry is working with secondary eye care

Scottish optometrist Elaine Hawthorn talks about how working with her hospital ophthalmology colleagues

Expanded Optical Primary Care is helping the NHS backlog

Specsavers practices are seeing more patients who previously may have been seen in hospital

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