The College provides the latest news, research, advice and guidance on the retina, and all the key optical topics. These are regularly reviewed to ensure you are completely up-to-date with your practice.
Read the guidance for advice on examining patients with diabetes mellitus.
Guidance for optometrists on examining patients who present with flashes and floaters.
Visit our learning hub for the latest online courses available to members on the topic of retina.
This year’s Optometry Tomorrow programme is designed to help you grow the skills that make the biggest difference in practice.
As advances in optical coherence tomography imaging shed new light on the choroid, Carina Bailey asks how measuring choroidal thickness could help determine ocular health.
Clinical files: Do I need to follow-up on patients with posterior vitreous detachment?
A glance at what’s happening in the world of technology.
Eye health issues that are making the news.
As the NHS digs deep to clear the backlog of routine ophthalmology consultations, Jo Waters asks optometrists and other experts how they are managing long patient waiting times.
Becky McCall looks at the eye health risks of cosmetic surgery and make-up in and around the eye.
In each issue, Acuity poses a topical question to a panel of members.
Our Editor in Chief, Professor Leon Davies FCOptom, looks back at what's been another challenging year.
The clinical figures that count.
Heart attacks transiently increase in number when the clocks go forward. Diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma can interfere with the body’s sleep-wake cycles. Becky McCall examines the relationship between the eye and sleep.
Increasing demand for intravitreal injections to treat conditions such as wet AMD provides an opportunity for optometrists to widen their portfolio of skills, writes Kim Thomas.
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology has been accredited as a provider of the Professional Higher Certificate in Medical Retina by the College.