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Optician's comprehensive CPD coverage – including monthly interactive CPD - ensures that all GOC registered practitioners (optometrists, contact lens opticians, dispensing opticians and therapeutic optometrists) may achieve their full three-year cycle requirement in all competencies through a unique and unrivalled distance learning platform.

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Sustainability in optical practice 1: A professional imperative for the future

Following the recent success of Optician’s Eyes on Sustainability conference Peter Black discusses what optical practices can do to help the world get to net zero and work towards the United Nations’ ...

Optometric practice: The natural home of dry eye 7

In this penultimate chapter (and the next final installment) of this series Andrew Price concludes that indeed optometric practice can, and should, be the place where dry eye is not only diagnosed but...

Why vision errors get worse at night: From pupil dilation to aberrations

Optical engineer Cory Boone breaks down why pupil dilation, aberrations and other factors make it more difficult to see clearly at night, particularly while driving...

The evolution of AI and its increasing use in eye care

Jason Higginbotham investigates the ways AI has developed and the innovations it has brought to the treatment of ocular conditions...

Optometric practice: The natural home of dry eye – part 6

This sixth article by Andrew Price, continues to look beyond the use of dry eye drops alone, at therapy patients can carry out themselves, under the title ‘home treatments’...

TFOS DEWS III - Diagnostic methodology: Management and therapy report

Sarah Farrant reviews the latest research into dry eye from the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society Dry Eye Workshop, TFOS DEWS III Management and Therapy Report1 published in June 2025...

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