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Clinical guidance
Guidance for Professional Practice
Clinical Management Guidelines
Optometrists' Formulary
Clinical advice service
Clinical files
Guidance for therapeutics
Supplementary guidance
Using Evidence in Practice
Ethical scenarios
Professional development
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CPD hub
Introduction to CPD
Online learning
Peer discussion and peer review
Docet distance learning
Further qualifications
Independent prescribing (IP) qualification
Higher qualifications
College journals
Acuity
Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics (OPO)
Optometry In Practice
Career pathways in optometry
Research awards and grants
Research Excellence Awards
Financial support for College members undertaking research
Library and information services
Fellowship by Portfolio
Qualifying
Scheme for Registration
New route to qualification
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International pre-registration trainees
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A career in optometry
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3 July 2023
The NHS celebrates 75th birthday
Public health
30 June 2023
College welcomes the first NHS Long Term Workforce Plan
Advancing optometry
Public health
28 June 2023
BBC newsreader rushed to hospital after optometrist identifies detached retina
Public health
Retina
19 June 2023
DVLA revises list of notifiable conditions for drivers in UK
Driving and vision
14 June 2023
College research highlights potential damage to eye health due to increased cost of living
Public health
13 June 2023
College welcomes new Council members at AGM
9 June 2023
Clinical Alert regarding syphilis - from British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH)
Public health
8 June 2023
College presents President’s Medal to Professor Bernard Gilmartin
Research
7 June 2023
College announces Clinical Learning in Practice (CLiP) placement programme partnerships
26 May 2023
We respond to news reports on soft contact lenses containing fluoropolymers
Contact lenses
23 May 2023
Call for papers for special issue of OPO
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18 May 2023
College responds to consultation on reforming healthcare regulatory framework
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17 May 2023
SPOKE releases third project looking at admissions and recruitment
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16 May 2023
College of Optometrists provides written and oral evidence to House of Lords
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15 May 2023
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