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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
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Ethical scenarios
Professional development
Events
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
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Research Excellence Awards
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Library and information services
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6 September 2023
Review finds there may be no benefit using blue-light filtering spectacles
Dispensing
Public health
3 July 2023
The NHS celebrates 75th birthday
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30 June 2023
College welcomes the first NHS Long Term Workforce Plan
Advancing optometry
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28 June 2023
BBC newsreader rushed to hospital after optometrist identifies detached retina
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14 June 2023
College research highlights potential damage to eye health due to increased cost of living
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9 June 2023
Clinical Alert regarding syphilis - from British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH)
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12 May 2023
Scottish Government withdraws COVID-19 specific face mask-wearing guidance
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4 May 2023
Marking His Majesty The King’s Coronation
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28 April 2023
College supports new road safety campaign
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27 April 2023
College president speaks at Parliamentary Meeting
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19 April 2023
BBC Sounds episode highlights visual symptoms of posterior cortical atrophy
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6 April 2023
Updated guidance for English and Welsh healthcare staff with positive COVID-19 test result
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5 April 2023
The College of Optometrists offers eye health tips as hay fever season kicks in
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23 March 2023
GOC presents draft response to its review of the Opticians Act (1989)
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22 March 2023
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