Latest optometry news
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'Countdown to 2020' event attracts worldwide attention, as avoidable blindness declines
8 October 2010
London, UK, 4 October 2010: Dr Boutros Boutros-Ghali, HRH The Countess of Wessex, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Sir John Major have all offered their support for ?Countdown to 2020?, an event being held by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
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University Roadshows 2010
6 October 2010
In September the College and the GOC teamed up to deliver a series of student roadshows.
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Children can wear contact lenses
5 October 2010
A new study by American optometrists has shown that short-sighted children as young as eight can benefit from wearing contact lenses as opposed to spectacles.
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RNIB urgently need Case Studies for NICE
4 October 2010
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), an NHS organisation that makes recommendations for the use of medications in the NHS, is reviewing two new treatments.
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GOC considers low income retention fee
4 October 2010
News from Council - Council meeting 23 September 2010
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College member survey - have your say!
1 October 2010
Complete our member survey - have your say and help us to understand better how members use our services, how we can improve those services and how you view the College's activities.
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College CEO to appear on Question Time for eye care professionals
1 October 2010
Bryony Pawinska, CEO of the College will participate in Johnson & Johnson Vision Care's Question Time at THE VISION CARE INSTITUTE at 7:00pm on Thursday 7th October 2010.
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Short-sighted claims over glasses
30 September 2010
NHS Choices has published the background to recent headlines that short-sightedness could soon be remedied with eye drops rather than glasses.
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Disability Living Allowance changes for severely sight impaired or blind
29 September 2010
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are introducing regulations that will entitle people to the Higher Rate Mobility Component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) if they have been certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant ophthalmologist and they have either: A corrected visual acuity of less than 3/60 or A corrected visual acuity of 3/60 or more, but less than 6/60, together with a complete loss of peripheral visual field and a central visual field of no more than 10 degrees in total.
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National Institute for Health Research - call for research proposals (Ref: HSR003)
29 September 2010
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Services Research (HSR) programme funds research to improve health policy, health systems and health care delivery. The NIHR Health Services Research programme is now accepting outline applications under the researcher-led funding stream.
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