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.
The College’s Guidance for Professional Practice section on assessing and managing children with myopia.
Clinical files: What impact should a patient's home genetics test have on my clinical decision-making?
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.
This session considers the ocular health of a myope in his mid-forties and discusses how we could have intervened had we had today’s knowledge when he was a child.
Three cases will aim to explore examples which may appear in any practice and overcome some of the concerns which may be raised by parents and carers.
The NICER study has led to the creation of a new digital health app, which helps predict the likelihood of myopia.
The findings in the report from Health Technology Wales (HTW) are consistent with College guidance.
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.
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.
Myopia case numbers are rising and treatment options vary, but are optometrists keeping an open mind on its causes and management? Adrian O’Dowd investigates.