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?

Can you refuse to see a patient who keeps taking his prescription elsewhere?

Your practice supplies glasses based on a prescription from another practice. What do you do if your patient is having problems seeing with them?

Non tolerance to an outside prescription. What would you do?

Dispensing of a complex prescription in your absence.

In the September issue of Optometry in Practice, we discuss the importance of establishing a new framework for eye care in special schools

This article provides optometrists with a framework to meet the eye care needs of children with significant learning disabilities.

The Deputy Chair of CET Approvers at the GOC on specialising in contact lenses and his decision to sell his independent practice.

Joining your local optical committee is good for you – and the future of optometry.