This series of video lectures from College conferences and regional events helps members stay up to date on important clinical topics (1 non-interactive CET point per video MCQ).

This course presents five patient case studies (1 non-interactive CET).

Your patient, their health can help improve your knowledge and skills in managing public health issues that affect your patients: dementia, falls and depression (1 non-interactive CET point).

Download this member briefing for information on the headline changes to the guidance.

You may have seen that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published its first guideline on the management of cataract in adults.

This document sets out a summary of evidence for you on blue-blocking spectacle lenses.

Fact sheet on using evidence in practice - blue-blocking spectacle lenses.

This programme provides guidance on the challenges in communication that optometrists may face when dealing with older patients.

An in-depth exploration of the referrals process in the UK.

This College research finds prevalence of visual impairment in those with dementia generally higher than the overall population.

College research finds that consumers prefer spectacles purchased in UK optometry practices to those bought online.

This docu-drama programme explores the condition of dementia and covers the key areas in the management of patients suffering from dementia.

Can you refuse to see a patient who keeps taking his prescription elsewhere?

How frequently you should you carry out regular eye examinations on a patient with glaucoma?

College of Optometrists funded study comparing over 300 pairs of spectacles.

Claims that individually prescribed coloured filters aid reading were well-publicised in the 1980s and remain controversial. This paper reviews evidence from research and makes recommendations.

Fact sheet on using evidence in practice - precision tinted lenses.

You can discuss this case study in practice as part of your CET. Key questions and sample answers are included.

This article introduces a proposal and outlines the areas that should be covered within a pathway.

Commissioning guidance on Cataract Surgery

College guidance on examining patients with dementia or other acquired cognitive impairment.

College guidance on supervision, including the supervision of dispensing to patients under the age of 16.

College guidance on the sale and supply of spectacles.

College guidance on dispensing low vision devices.

An overview of FLACS and the studies that have attempted to evaluate it.

An elderly patient misunderstands your advice and her worried sister has phoned you. Should you explain the situation to her?

This project brought together patients, practitioners and other interested organisations to identify current priorities for optometric research.

After examining her eyes you find that your patient's cataracts are getting worse. But she is happy with her current prescription. What do you prescribe?

Post-op assessment by a community optometrist as part of a shared care cataract pathway results in benefit for patients, optometrists and ophthalmologists.

Looking at research into posterior polar cataract and opacities elsewhere in the crystalline lens and poor vision.

Articles cover: Higher-order aberrations in keratoconus; contact lens fitting In challenging cases; the use of silicone hydrogel lenses to promote corneal re-epithelialisation; and cataract and the nodal point fallacy.

Articles cover: The NICE guideline on diagnosis and management of COAG and ocular hypertension, glaucoma detection, cataract development in relation to morphology and depression and acquired visual Impairment.

A detailed discussion of the morphology of, and predisposing factors for, development of cataract .

This article reviews the evidence for the role of nutrition in the development of cataract.

Subjects covered include, RGP lens fitting, the role of nutrition in cataract development, light sources for colour vision examination, the supervisor and trainee working relationship, the +1.00 blur test.

Neil Handley, Curator of the BOA Museum at the College, shares some interesting facts on the evolution of spectacles.

A review of the major risk factors for cataract.

This OiP article looks at fitting contact lenses to treat children with a variety of conditions.

A summary of the evidence on the possible role of vision tests in clinical decision making about cataract extraction.