Latest online CPD

Improve your skills and knowledge in diagnosis and patient management on this updated online CPD course for independent prescribing optometrists.

Latest clinical files

Clinical files: Can I prescribe medicines for intravitreal injection for the management of wet AMD patients?

Latest journal article

Optometrists have evolved from prescribers of spectacles to crucial primary care providers, writes Becky McCall.

Independent prescribing

The GOC opens consultation on proposed changes to its requirements for education and training in independent prescribing.

MHRA agrees with the College view that chloramphenicol eye drops can be safely administered to children aged 0 to 2 years, where antibiotic eye drop treatment is indicated.

Additional guidance for members with an independent prescribing qualification.

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Clinical files: Can I prescribe medication for a different use than it is licensed for?

We responded to a Royal Pharmaceutical Society consultation on a competency framework for all prescribers.

The processes around issuing prescriptions can be confusing. Steve Smethurst asks: what’s required from independent prescribers and what differences divide the UK’s four nations?

This week, the GOC agreed to the College’s proposal for a more flexible approach to meeting logbook requirements for optometrists training to be independent prescribers.