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.
The College’s Guidance for Professional Practice section on assessing and managing children with myopia.
Clinical files: A patient has lost their only pair of glasses. Can I make up a new pair of glasses if the prescription is expired?
Podcast: The College Clinical Advisers discuss ways to highlight the importance of regular sight tests as part of National Eye Health Week.
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.
Eye health issues that are making the news.
Clinical files: What impact should a patient's home genetics test have on my clinical decision-making?
Clinical files: Is it possible to offer myopia management to myopic patients who attend my practice using their external prescription for dispensing?
There is still time to register for the College of Optometrists’ flagship event, Optometry Tomorrow.
We speak with Aston University’s Emeritus Professor, and this year’s College of Optometrists President’s Medal winner.
Welcome to the UK's leading optometry conference - our flagship CPD event!
As the nights draw in and we enter a harsh winter, we may experience some issues with our eyes and even our vision, as we find that our eyes need some particular seasonal care.
This session will focus on our decision making and the advice we can provide to patients on myopia management.
This skills workshop focusses in on the four key outcomes that define a successful ortho-k fit for myopia management.
This lecture will look at where we are now with respect to the evidence and interventions available to support myopia management.