The College supports the growing number of optometrists offering myopia management (sometimes known as myopia control) interventions to reduce myopia progression. Read our guidance.
This report provides a review of the evidence available for myopia management interventions. It identifies gaps and provides the basis for related guidance recommendations.
Find out how the myopia evidence review and the new College guidance will affect you in practice.
The College has provided the following FAQs on myopia management as a summary of the guidance and evidence review for optometrists and their patients.
Research, jointly funded by the College of Optometrists and Ulster University, has shown that myopia is more than twice as prevalent among children in the UK now than in the 1960s.
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This year's National Eye Health Week will take place from 18 to 24 September 2023, promoting the importance of good eye health and the need for regular sight tests for all.
A message from Leon Davies, College President
A lack of experience can put some optometrists off examining young children’s eyes. Anna Scott asks: how can they feel empowered and confident?
Online CPD courses for optometrists on the topic of myopia.
Professor Kathryn Saunders FCOptom and Dr Sara McCullough MCOptom cover the most recent findings from the Northern Ireland Childhood Errors of Refraction (NICER) Study and how it can help you identify children at risk of future myopia.
This online CPD course will help you consider the advice you give patients about products and treatments.
Professor Ed Mallen MCOptom discusses the findings from the part College-funded Northern Ireland Childhood Errors of Refraction (NICER) Study and how it can help you talk to children at risk of myopia and their parents.
In this recorded webinar, Michael Horler FCOptom uses real patient cases to give optometrists a greater understanding of how to interpret an OCT scan and how to recognise some common ocular conditions.
Dr Nicola Logan MCOptom discusses current evidence for myopia management treatments in this recorded webinar. Topics include orthokeratology, soft CE marked myopia-control contact lenses, and Atropine eye drops.
This video lecture updates you on the current evidence for myopia management treatments, including orthokeratology, soft myopia-management contact lenses, and atropine eye drops.