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Taking the initiative - looking 10 years ahead
This week I’m taking part in an away day with the College Board, where we’re taking the long view of optometry and looking 10 years into the future so that our next three-year strategic plan is heading in the right direction. Some may qu...
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We continue to look for ways to engage with our members
I attended Optrafair 2013 at the NEC last month, and whilst I was there I took time out to visit the College stand, where visiting optometrists were being asked to ‘Look again at what we offer’. Over the three days, the stand was i...
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Not a lot of people will know this
Michael Caine has appeared in more than a hundred films since the late 1950s and in the vast majority of them he didn't wear glasses. In real life he never wore them either, despite a degree of myopia, until after his appearance in Zulu (1964) he too...
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Improving how we collect data is vital to improving our service
For a number of years clinicians and health professionals have agreed that digitalising data and processes not only makes communication more efficient but also improves services for patients. Our recent report, Better data, better care: Ophthal...
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Optometrists as facialists
There’s a new type of launch event doing the rounds these days. The emphasis is less on delivering new information to journalists and more about adding value to business partnerships, so companies invite their clients along for a two-way conver...
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Optometry Tomorrow 2013: a record breaking, storming success
So another Optometry Tomorrow conference comes to a close, and I am happy to say that it has been our most successful conference to date, an absolute storming success. It was great to be back in Nottingham, home of the first Optometry Tomorrow in 20...
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Optometry Tomorrow 2013: a weekend of firsts
Our annual conference, Optometry Tomorrow 2013, is almost here, and I’m very excited about this year’s event, which looks like being our most popular conference ever, with over twice the number of delegates as attended in 2012. In my day...
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The provision of eye care should be for everyone
I started writing this blog last week when I was in India for a couple of weeks. Being of Indian origin I realised, having been born in Kenya and raised by and large in the UK, that I didn’t really have a clear concept of my ‘roots’...
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