National Eye Health Week runs from 23 to 29 September and is filled with activities that promote the importance of good eye health and the need for regular sight tests for all.

Podcast: The College Clinical Advisers discuss ways to highlight the importance of regular sight tests as part of National Eye Health Week.

Dr Margaret (Maggie) Woodhouse discusses the main issues in examining and managing patients with learning disabilities whose communication styles are different from the norm.

Eye health issues that are making the news.

Jane Veys MCOptom on change.

Welcome to our newly elected college president Dr Gillian Rudduck FCOptom, who began her term of office at optometry tomorrow 2024 in April.

We speak to clinical academic Professor Jasleen Jolly FCOptom about improving patient outcomes with a multidisciplinary lens and championing equity within optometry.

Optometrists can play a vital role in encouraging patients to change unhealthy lifestyle choices and behaviours, says Kellie Smith.

Kaye McIntosh on managing patients with nystagmus in the consulting room – patience is key in examinations.

Now performed by more optometrists in practice, lacrimal syringing is one way of investigating blockages and treating epiphora.

Offering your skills to local communities abroad can be a life-changing experience. In the final article in a mini-series on volunteering in optometry, Sophie Goodchild looks at what optometrists need to consider before they go.

Personal resilience is a positive trait that has become an often misunderstood and misused term. Kathy Oxtoby looks at the issues for eye care practitioners.