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Category: General News

February 20, 2025
Lost in the System: How the Role of Receptionists and Admin is Leading to Critical Failures in Patient Care

A national reveals nearly 20% of Brits avoid seeing a GP due to poor experiences with reception staff 

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February 17, 2025
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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February 17, 2025
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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February 13, 2025
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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February 11, 2025
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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January 31, 2025
Changes at the OCCS

Paul Chapman-Hatchett will succeed Richard Edwards at the OCCS following a transition period in March

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January 31, 2025
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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January 31, 2025
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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January 27, 2025
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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January 27, 2025
Fresh calls for urgent reform of the NHS by top Medical Director welcomed by the AOP 

Nearly half the population could end up in A&E annually by 2034,

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