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Missed today's BBC Radio 4's Sliced Bread?

Catch up now as our Clinical Adviser Daniel Hardiman-McCartney MBE, presenter Greg Foot, listener Jennifer & The University of Manchester researcher Sarah Smith explore the clinical and environmental pros and cons of daily vs monthly lenses ➡️ coptom.uk/3yLOh29

June is Cataract Awareness Month. We're celebrating the National Cataract Audit receiving data from 177 hospitals: quality assuring surgery for their patients. That's 80% of all NHS cataracts in England & Wales. The other 20% are very welcome to join!
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Can you apply for Ruskell Medal or the Master’s Medal 2024, for research published between 30 June 2023 & 1 August 2024? details of both Medals, and online application forms, are now available on our website: Support for Vision Research -The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers

Happy World Orthoptic Day!🎉 #Orthoptists are integral to the #eye #health #MDT 🤝working to ensure that everyone has straight #binocular #vision . WCSM are proud to have our FIRST #orthoptist Master, and to raise awareness of #orthoptics in the #City & #Livery . #AHP Orthoptics Worldwide.

📢 We are recruiting children 6-12 years old for our #myopia study Aston Optometry Aston University ⬇️
Participants receive a £400 gift card at the end of the study, and children can also keep their preferred spectacles!
Interested? 🤔
DM/ email 'SGV2' to [email protected]

Eye Journal Jon Stone Neil Ramsay This is a must read for all ophthalmologists (& neurologists!) Excellent discussion approaching conversations about functional visual loss. This opinion based review opens debate on how to help people living with FVL. UKNOSoc EUNOSsociety Neurology Trainees NANOS NANSIG (Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group)

Today I enjoyed the very interesting discussion Eye Health & VI APPG Marsha de Cordova on #connectivity #ai #ophthalmology #optometry #oct #visualfields #genetics #imaging the way forward BUT we must also remember a #patient centred service
Great speakers

Free online lecture on discoveries made by #vision #scientists & research into #AI , #genetics & new #technology happening in the City of #London that will benefit the #eye #health of millions worldwide. Register➡️greshamsociety.org/webinar/12071/. Part of Lord Mayor, City of London 'Knowledge Miles'.

Congratulations Jane Macnaughton PhD FCOptom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿!! Incredibly well deserved!!

Fabulous to see SeeAbility special schools team win the RNIB #SeeDifferentlyAwards Team of the Year award!!
Amazing work supporting children with #learningdisabilities .
#inspirational

Delighted to be RNIB see differently #awards where Harry Petrishkin got a highly commended for his #amazing work #hypotony Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust GOSHCharity trained Guy's and St Thomas' #ophthalmologist very well done Harry!

A couple of court members raising our glasses to 395 years of the WCoSpectacleMakers celebrating better #vision for all

A squint, where the eyes do not look in the same direction, can sometimes be a symptom of retinoblastoma. In many cases, it’s nothing more than a squint but all children should be checked out just in case, as it’s the second most common sign of retinoblastoma#RbWeek

Multi-disciplinary collaboration in action- four O’s of eye care. A Dispensing Optician, Ophthalmologist, Orthoptist & Optometrist at WCoSpectacleMakers livery Eye Health event at Guy's and St Thomas'. A pleasure to talk & share stage with LizTomlin/ElizabethShilling, Fiona & Seema. #BetterVisionForAll

Today is Fresnels birthday ! He designed #fresnel prisms. Really useful for #orthoptists
Top tip when fitting #fresnel #prisms for #patients with horizontal and vertical #squint & #diplopia
Do the Math! #Pythagoras
And simply fit at 45 degrees!

Is it possible to estimate the true rate of visual field progression in patients from a #glaucoma clinic? Find out in our latest paper! Crabb Lab Research Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The latest edition of @OptometryToday leads with a feature on my eye-care campaigning and National Eye Health Strategy Bill.

With an ongoing crisis in NHS eye care, we can’t afford to be complacent.

I spoke about how my work in Parliament can catalyse change & the

Spectacle Makers' can register for next week's Eye-to-Eye with Professor David O'Brart, leading #researcher in refractive surgery & femtosecond laser tech. He will be discussing the importance of #sustainability in eye care in UK health depts & worldwide. ♻️

Eye care services deliver the highest volume of activity in the NHS with almost 9 million ophthalmology outpatient attendances in 2022/23.

I met with the Minister for Public Health Andrea Leadsom to discuss my Bill for a National Eye Health Strategy for England and the actions…