Optegra announces programme of engaging CPD events for healthcare community

Optegra continues to strengthen its commitment to clinical excellence and community partnership by announcing a series of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events throughout 2026, open to any health care professionals in optometry.

Taking place across a range of dates and locations (from Newcastle and Preston, to Hampshire and Brighton), these multi-format events provide a constant form of interaction and dialogue between professionals within the optometry community. As well as providing essential CPD points, accredited through the General Optical Council (GOC).

Optegra’s CPD events are hugely collaborative between a range of departments to ensure the highest quality content. Topics to be covered in this year’s calendar of events include lectures and workshops on:

What’s new in AMD?
Foreign body removal
Drop-free cataract surgery
What’s new in glaucoma?
Corneal topography and tomography
OCT unlocked – practical applications and latest developments

Professor Clare O’Donnell, Head of Optometry and Optegra Eye Sciences, said: “We are fortunate to have leading ophthalmic surgeons within Optegra who are always willing to share their expertise and work closely with optometrists to raise standards and ultimately help provide the best possible treatment for patients.”

Using a variety of formats including webinars (to offer convenience for those unable to attend in person), face-to-face workshops and peer reviews, these CPD events have proved to be very popular in previous years. In fact, one webinar focusing on dry eye and menopause proved particularly popular and registered over 1,000 delegates, a new milestone for Optegra.

Each face-to-face event typically awards between three and five CPD points, while attendance at lecture webinars awards one. In the past year, Optegra supported over 1,300 optometrists around the UK with over 12 interactive webinars as well as 65 face-to-face events at its regional clinics and hospitals.

For a full list of this year’s events please click here.

Optegra Eye Health Care is a specialist provider of ophthalmic services. Established in 2007, with its first hospital opening in 2008, it has completed over one million eye procedures from its 74 eye hospitals across the UK, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Holland.

As well as providing private vision correction treatments – from lens replacement and laser eye surgery to implantable contact lenses – Optegra treats cataract surgery both privately and through its partnership with the NHS. Optegra also treats medical conditions AMD and glaucoma; and has launched the first ever treatment for people with the Dry form of AMD.

Optegra is owned by EssilorLuxottica, a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of advanced vision care products, eyewear and med-tech solutions. Backed by robust R&D investments, distinctive capabilities and a top-quality asset portfolio, the Company drives innovation across eye health.

Optegra brings together leading-edge research, medical expertise and state-of-the-art surgical equipment. It performs more than 170,000 treatments annually, both private and publicly funded. Its top ophthalmic surgeons are renowned for their areas of expertise, offering excellent clinical outcomes and great patient service.