London member CET event

This is an opportunity to have something to eat whilst networking with fellow attendees and exhibitors. We encourage you to arrive by 6pm to allow yourself plenty of time to park, register and have a bite to eat.                           

A College representative will give you an update on the College's current activities. 

Vision and driving - seeing down the road with the DVLA

Visual standards for driving in the UK have changed relatively little over recent decades, but it is understood that determining a safe standard of vision is not always straight forward and the current number plate test may not be fit for purpose.
The DVLA increasingly seeks to maintain safe visual standards for driving that are evidenced-based, and that take account of individual circumstances and the optical appliances that drivers currently utilise.
This talk will look at current visual requirements for driving and how the DVLA processes cases where standards may fall short. It will address concerns with regard to current standards and how things may change in future, including the optometrist’s role in assessing and reporting. 
It will also present and discuss several recent interesting cases that have required special consideration by the DVLA in order to come to a decision

Competencies covered: Communication, Standards of practice and Assessment of visual function. 

Learning objectives:

• To understand the optometrist's role and obligations with regard to assessing visual standards for driving and how they may change in the future 
• To know the current regulations with regard to vision and driving in the UK
• To understand how the DVLA considers specific cases where there is doubt about an individual meeting the visual standards for driving

Target group: optometrist

Professor Roger Anderson FCOptom

Ulster University
Coleraine

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Professor Roger Anderson FCOptom

Ulster University, Coleraine

Roger Anderson trained at Cardiff University, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Indiana University and the University of Edinburgh before joining Ulster University in 1995. 
He is also a Professor at the Moorfields/UCL Biomedical Research Centre where he co-invented the Moorfields Acuity Chart, a novel high-pass logMAR letter chart for the detection and monitoring of conditions such as AMD. He is a Life Fellow of the College of Optometrists and in 2016 was awarded a DSc by Cardiff University.
He serves as a Member of the Medical Advisory Panel on Driving and Visual Disorders of the DVLA, the Editorial Board of Current Eye Research, the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Glaucoma Association and is an Expert Witness for the GOC.

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This is an opportunity to have some tea/coffee and speak further with fellow attendees and exhibitors. 

The peer discussion session will cover three patients: each patient presents with different challenges and the aim of the session is develop a structured approach to managing each of these. The session is designed to hone delegates' history taking, and help delegates to ask patients pertinent questions. 
The scenarios presented will tend to lead to a particular diagnosis, but are not supposed to be clear cut. At the end of the discussion around each patient there will be a short film shown from a relevant expert discussing how they would approach the history taking for such a patient, what questions they would find it useful for optometrists to ask, and how they would recommend managing such a patient. 

Target group: Optometrist and Therapeutic prescriber

Competencies covered:

Optometrist: Communication, Standards of practice, Ocular disease and Binocular vision

Therapeutic prescriber: Options and Knowledge

Learning objectives:

• To be able to obtain an appropriate history from a patient presenting with various conditions
• To consider all the information provided by your patients
• To understand the risk factors for patients presenting with various conditions
• To recognise common ocular abnormalities and refer when appropriate
• To develop a management plan for the investigation of patients presenting with an uncomfortable eye or headaches
• To know how to manage a patient presenting with an anomaly of binocular vision