Category: General News

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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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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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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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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