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Optician's comprehensive CET coverage – including monthly interactive CET - 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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Looking ahead: Lifestyle advice and disease prevention in community practice

With many of the risk factors for eye disease, and poor health in general, being modifiable, David Cartwright explains why eye care professionals are well placed to introduce tailored advice about lif...

Covid-19 and eye care for the elderly

Dr Doina Gherghel discusses the impact of Covid-19 upon elderly patients and those with sight loss. (C76810, one distance learning CET point suitable for optometrists and dispensing opticians)...

Rock and roll in progressive non-adaptation

Andy Sanders considers the common reasons for non-adaptation of progressive power lenses and how they might best be avoided (C76781, one distance learning CET point suitable for optometrists and dispe...

Fundamentals of ophthalmic dispensing part 13: Eye movements

In the second article focusing on binocular vision as an influence upon spectacle correction, Peter Black and Tina Arbon explain the anatomical basis of eye movement and how each eye moves relative to...

AI in eye care; an introduction to how neural networks work

Dr Emma Pead looks at the development of an artificial intelligence system for the detection of age-related macular degeneration (C76731, one distance learning point suitable for optometrists and disp...

Why are 1 day SiH lenses a good choice for my patients?

Dr Kathy Dumbleton and Anna Sulley summarise the key points from a recent peer-reviewed paper summarising the evidence of the published literature that supports the benefits of both a 1 day modality a...

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