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.
Exciting opportunities abound for the optical profession in the new Health and Care Bill, but there are caveats too, reports Jo Waters.
In each issue, Acuity poses a topical question to a panel of members.
After visiting his father in prison, Tanjit set up a charity to provide eye care and optical skills training to prisoners.
From vaccine hesitancy to blue-light filters, Steve Smethurst looks at the erroneous but unbudgeable beliefs that should be buried for good.
Clinical files: Dispensing enquiry - what would you do?
A patient wants to purchase a pair of spectacles using a prescription generated from an overseas app on his smartphone. What would you do?
Remote consultations were seen as a short-term pandemic solution, but they look like they’re here to stay. Steve Smethurst looks at the benefits of tele-optometry and the video software optometrists should consider.
Your patient wants you to make up spectacles from a four year old prescription. What should you do?