Low vision

As coordinator of the Vision Loss Expert Group, Professor Rupert Bourne has helped international bodies access accurate population-based data about eye health. Now he’s turning his attention closer to home.

Adrian O’Dowd looks at how large-scale, digitised and sophisticated data in optometry is helping to improve care.

Key statistics from the WHO World report on vision 2019.

Eye health issues that are making the news.

Dr Flors Viñuela-Navarro PhD MCOptom and Dr Francisco Viñuela-Rodriguez FAAO discuss the abnormalities of a pituitary tumour and the diagnosis of such space-occupying lesions.

Dr Keziah Latham, the low vision specialist, discusses how teaching, research and clinical practice are interlinked.

Prashant Shah MCOptom PGDipOphth DipClinOptom examines the case of a patient presenting with a homonymous visual field defect eventually diagnosed as a grade 4 brain tumour.

Dr David Robert Grimes looks at the eye health issues that are making the news.

Smartphone and tablet vision tests are widely used by optometrists and patients in the US, while robust legislation prevents their use in the UK. But will this always be the case? Carolyn Scott looks for answers.