Category: General News

Optoversity Challenge draws 12 universities together
Out of the Box Optic’s Optoversity Challenge 2025 has brought 95 students from 12 UK universities together
Read More..Jeet Saimbi announces retirement from Scrivens
The professional services director, joined the family owned business as a pre-reg dispensing optician
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The NHS celebrates 75 years of cataract surgery, an operation which helps restore vision.
Sir Harold’s invention was considered radical and was initially resisted by much of the medical profession
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EssilorLuxottica renews sponsorship with the ABDO National Resource Centre
EssilorLuxottica is proud to continue to sponsor the hot drink facilities at the National Resource Centre,
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Optical team raise their glasses to Raj and welcome new practice director
Over the last three decades Raj has helped drive the practice forward,
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VCHP clinics visited by Canadian colleague
The VCHP team in Yorkshire has just welcomed a guest from the University of Montreal
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Changes at the OCCS
Paul Chapman-Hatchett will succeed Richard Edwards at the OCCS following a transition period in March
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Applications for new AAOF and Meta Reality labs research $1.5 M open-science myopia grant
The 2025 Myopia Research Grant will provide three awards of $500,000 USD each.
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Optical regulator announces move to new office space in Canary Wharf
The new GOC office is a smaller, more cost-effective space, and will support the GOC’s agile, hybrid working style.
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New UK Eye Care Data Hub predicts higher prevalence of eye disease
There is projected to be a decrease in dispensing opticians (-11.7%) and nurses specialising in eye care (-33.3%).
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