Category: General News

Intel AI-Powered Backpack Helps Visually Impaired Navigate World
team designed an AI-powered, voice-activated backpack that can help the visually impaired navigate and perceive the world around them.
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Blackfin guest speaker at universities
The story of Blackfin reaches the desks of two prestigious universities. Nicola Del Din, the company CEO
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“If relationships were a drug, NICE would mandate their use in every consultation,”
Professor Marshall tells King’s Fund Conference yesterday
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Optoversity challenge raises £7,700 for VCHP
Out of the Box Optics’s Optoversity Challenge has raised an impressive £7,700 for Vision Care for Homeless People at Sunday’s online event
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Prof. Peter Shah writes for RCOph on Glaucoma Treatment, “time to transform and reconfigure the service.”
In a blog he writes a piece for the college for World Glaucoma Week. Titled “Glaucoma, Isolation and Kindness: the role ophthalmologists play in creating a brighter world “
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Health Secretary – IT innovation can help reduce unnecessary trips to hospital
Matt Hancock has spoken about the role technology will play in the future of healthcare in England.
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Specsavers returns to residential care homes for eye tests
Care home residents who have missed out on eye tests during the pandemic are once again able to access Specsavers home visits service
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A Positive Impact milestone for independents
Positive Impact has launched its first ever catalogue to help independents to differentiate and to highlight its expanding range of products and services.
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Slit lamp donation helps community hospital
A Bicester opticians has donated a brand new slit lamp to the eye department at Brackley Community Hospital.
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New Study Links Protein Causing Alzheimer’s Disease With Common Sight Loss
Newly published research has revealed a close link between proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease and age-related sight loss.
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