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?
The College Clinical Advisers discuss the recent news from the MHRA approving the first atropine treatment for myopia in the UK.
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.
We provide advice on protecting the public's vision and eye health this summer. Scroll down for graphics you can use to help share our message.
Podcast: We answer questions there wasn't time to answer during the webinar discussing recent findings from the part College-funded Northern Ireland Childhood Errors of Refraction (NICER) Study.
Use our online resources and materials to support your continuing professional development and earn essential CPD points.
Emma Bennett explores the link between a rise in screen time during the pandemic and increasing levels of myopia in children.
The College of Optometrists presented the prestigious Research Excellence Awards today as part of Optometry Tomorrow Bitesize 2021.
The College of Optometrists is running Optometry Tomorrow Bitesize as a month-long online learning event for members, starting from Tuesday 2 March.
Take part in our research on childhood myopia and inform future decisions on myopia management.
This article outlines the evidence used to demonstrate the complex aetiology of myopia development and discusses how the supposed opposing influences of genetic factors and environmental influences can be used to further our understanding of myopia.
The latest issue of our international research journal, OPO, is out now.
The clinical figures that count.
Our Director of Research, Michael Bowen, looks at how the Cochrane review will affect our guidance on myopia management.
We asked five industry experts to round up the optical successes of 2018, and what they predict for the year ahead.